BitTorrent Patched Against Flaw That Allowed Crippling DoS Attacks

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Vulnerability in open BitTorrent protocol amplified attacks as much as 120 times.

The maintainers of the open BitTorrent protocol for file sharing have fixed a vulnerability that allowed lone attackers with only modest resources to take down large sites using a new form of denial-of-service attack. The technique was disclosed two weeks ago in a research paper submitted to the 9th Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technologies. By sending vulnerable BitTorrent applications maliciously modified data,…

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