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Miscreants have launched massive, amplified distributed denial-of-service attacks by exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel collaboration systems. Their exploitation technique can, we're told, achieve an amplification factor of almost 4.3 billion to one, potentially, meaning a single malicious packet could bring down a stranger's network. An amplification attack typically involves sending a small amount of information to a vulnerable network service that causes it to reply with a much larger amount...