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Future Hosting Warns Server Hosting Clients Of Dangers Posed By Insecure Memcached Instances


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), a company based in Southfield, Michigan, has warned server hosting clients of the dangers posed by insecure Memcached instances. When configured incorrectly, the popular caching application could be used by bad actors to launch massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

Earlier this year, a popular version control platform was targeted by a record-breaking DDoS attack that peaked at 1.35 TB per second. Soon after, that record was broken by a DDoS attack that used insecure Memcached instances to send 1.7 TB per second to its victim, stated Future Hosting. Few businesses can mitigate attacks of this [...][... Check source for end of article ...]
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