By Darren Pauli, 25 Jun 2014

 

ysadmins rejoice! NSFOCUS researchers say hundreds of thousands of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers have been patched, reducing the threat from some devastating and cheap distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

The patching rampage saw the number of vulnerable NTP servers drop from 432,120 at the start of the year to 17,647 in May.

 The sharp decline followed alerts by Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) and the media to a rise in powerful NTP reflection DDoS attacks that deluged websites and servers with record levels of junk traffic.

 

The Register/ full read here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/25/sysadmins_rejoice_patch_rampage_killing_off_nasty_ddos_attack_vector/