DDoS attacks is relentless. New techniques, new targets and a new class of attackers continue to reinvigorate one of the internet’s oldest nemesis.

Universal Plug and Play networking protocols can be exploited to bypass DDoS mitigations.

NTP 4.2.8p9 includes a patch for a vulnerability that could crash ntpd with a single malformed packet.

The network time protocol, at the center of a number of high-profile DDoS attacks in 2014, was updated on Thursday to ntp-4.2.8p8. The latest version includes patches for five vulnerabilities, including one rated high-severity. NTP, specifically the NTP daemon, synchronizes system clocks with time servers. Vulnerable NTP servers were used two years ago with regular...