Those Harder to Mitigate UPnP-Powered DDoS Attacks Are Becoming a Reality

Back in May, Imperva researchers said they've seen botnets executing DDoS attacks via the DNS and NTP protocols, but using UPnP to disguise the traffic as coming from random ports, and not port 53 (DNS) or port 123 (NTP).

Read the article on Bleeping Computer: Those Harder to Mitigate UPnP-Powered DDoS Attacks Are Becoming a Reality

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easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

Firewalls are becoming increasingly important in today’s world. Hackers and automated scripts are constantly trying to invade your system and use it for Bitcoin mining, botnets or other things. To prevent these attacks, you can use a firewall on your system. IPTables is the strongest firewall in Linux because it can filter packets in the kernel before they reach the application. Using IPTables is not very easy for Linux beginners. We have created easywall - the simple IPTables web interface . The focus of the software is on easy installation and use. Access this neat software over on github: easywall

No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. Read the post of at Cloudflare's blog: N o Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible

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