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Attackers abuse legacy routing protocol to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks

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Servers could be haunted by a ghost from the 1980s, as hackers have started abusing an obsolete routing protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. DDoS attacks observed in May by the research team at Akamai abused home and small business (SOHO) routers that still support Routing Information Protocol version 1 (RIPv1). This protocol is designed […]

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Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet’s assault?

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Protocol wars: Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet’s assault? Although Fibre Channel is seeing single-digit growth rates, Ethernet for storage is exploding Computerworld – Fibre Channel, the high-speed data transport protocol for storage area networks (SAN), is under increasing pressure as data centers move toward Ethernet for all data network traffic and SAS for hardware interconnects. […]

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