Level 3 Communications has discovered a new type of reflection DDoS attack that takes advantage of RPC Portmapper to overwhelm networking services. A number web hosting providers and businesses in the ...
Level 3 announced that it has witnessed an alarming trend in both traffic behaviour and DDoS methods following the introduction of a new DDoS vector: Portmapper. Portmapper (also referred to as ...
One web hosting company was last month used for a trial run of a new type of damaging distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. First reported by Threat Post, one services provider noticed ...
How can I stop portmapper (don't need it) and ipchains (so I can use iptables) from loading at boot ?Is turning them off in ntsysv enough ?Thanks View ...