[ NNSquad ] How Anonymous plans to use DNS as a weapon

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

How Anonymous plans to use DNS as a weapon

http://j.mp/ykMSrb  (ars technica)

   "The scale and stealthiness of the technique, called DNS amplification,
    is its main draw for Anonymous. DNS amplification hijacks an integral
    part of the Internet's global address book, turning a relatively small
    stream of requests from attacking machines into a torrent of data sent
    to the target machines, potentially delivering network traffic of tens
    or hundreds of gigabytes per second without revealing the source of
    the attack. It does so by using a vulnerability in the DNS service
    that's been known since at least 2002."

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--Lauren--
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