{"id":3773,"date":"2018-03-28T13:50:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2018-03-28T13:50:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:50:59","slug":"dobbs-journal-memcached-servers-can-be-hijacked-for-massive-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/2018\/03\/28\/dobbs-journal-memcached-servers-can-be-hijacked-for-massive-ddos-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobbs Journal.  Memcached servers can be hijacked for massive DDoS attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting read that I found talked about how Memcached servers can be quickly hijacked and compromised by to launch large DDoS attacks. Utilizing IT spoofing and a poorly implemented UDP causes the servers to be put at risk because attackers will send a packet to the server, which will in turn greatly increase the size and forward the attack to the intended target. The fix only involved disabling the UDP port, but the question is, how many servers are out there with this setting unknowingly enable and stand at a huge vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3258772\/security\/memcached-servers-can-be-hijacked-for-massive-ddos-attacks.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3258772\/security\/memcached-servers-can-be-hijacked-for-massive-ddos-attacks.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting read that I found talked about how Memcached servers can be quickly hijacked and compromised by to launch large DDoS attacks. Utilizing IT spoofing and a poorly implemented UDP causes the servers to be put at risk because attackers will send a packet to the server, which will in turn greatly increase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722304],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-08-it-services-quality","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5212sec001sec701sp2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}