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As many as 300,000 servers or devices on the public internet are thought to be vulnerable right now to the recently disclosed Loop Denial-of-Service technique that works against some UDP-based application-level services. It's said that certain implementations of TFTP, DNS, and NTP, as well as legacy protocols, such as Echo, Chargen, and QOTD, are at risk. Exploitation may result in services going down, if not whole machines or networks. Judging from DNS, NTP, and TFTP scans, the largest number o...