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One of the first amplification DDoS attacks I ever saw - talking 1990s era - was to ping the broadcast addresses of unwitting campus networks with the victim’s
by inopinatus 3y ago
One of the first amplification DDoS attacks I ever saw - talking 1990s era - was to ping the broadcast addresses of unwitting campus networks with the victim’s host address spoofed as the source.
This shouldn’t work today, but back then, a naive TCP/IP implementation (which is to say, many of them) would happily participate.
- lokar 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack
- inopinatus 3y agoAh that’s right. It’s been so long I’d forgotten the name. Although I have a feeling it was already a recognised potential vulnerability some years before being packaged as a convenient utility.