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Using BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks

Researchers warn several BitTorrent protocols can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service (DRoS) attacks. Researchers warn that several protocols used by the peer-to-peer ...
ZDNet

BitTorrent exploits allow lone hackers to launch large DDoS attacks

A flaw in BitTorrent clients can be exploited to allow single attackers to harness extra juice in launching DDoS attacks on a vast scale. At the USENIX conference in Washington, D.C., researchers from ...
ZDNet

BitTorrent patches reflective DDoS attack security vulnerability

BitTorrent has taken rapid steps to mitigate a flaw which could divert user traffic to launch reflective DDoS attacks. The flaw, reported by Florian Adamsky at the USENIX conference in Washington, D.C ...
ExtremeTech

Bleep: BitTorrent's new p2p chat client avoids the cloud so you can speak freely

The world's most successful data transfer protocol could underlie the next generation chat client: Bleep will provide totally secure, totally peer-to-peer chatting from BitTorrent. Share on Facebook ...