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Heavy Networking 596: Weaponizing Firewalls And Middleboxes For DDoS Attacks
September 03, 2021
50:57
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Today's Heavy Networking podcast dives into academic research on DDoS attack techniques. Our guests have published a paper about how the TCP protocol and middleboxes such as firewalls can be weaponized by bad actors and used in reflective amplification attacks. We discuss technical details, how they performed this research, potential countermeasures, and more.