Heavy Networking 596: Weaponizing Firewalls And Middleboxes For DDoS Attacks

<p>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.</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://packetpushers.net/podcast/heavy-networking-596-weaponizing-firewalls-and-middleboxes-for-ddos-attacks/">Heavy Networking 596: Weaponizing Firewalls And Middleboxes For DDoS Attacks</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://packetpushers.net">Packet Pushers</a>.</p>