Good News: Vulnerable NTP Servers Closing Down
On February 10th, CloudFlare experienced a massive DDoS attack with nearly 400Gbps of NTP attack traffic hitting their network. They were not the only ones affected; OVH reported a similar-sized attack around the same time. After the attack, they published a list of networks involved in hopes that they would fix the problem. The results have been encouraging: more than 75% of the vulnerable servers are now no longer vulnerable after just over a week and a half. Network administrators worldwide have taken notice and are closing down vulnerable NTP servers to prevent future attacks.
Company
Cloudflare
Date published
Feb. 23, 2014
Author(s)
Jérôme Fleury
Word count
390
Hacker News points
None found.
Language
English