[Info-vax] Warning: Your VMS system may be attacking other systems

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-02-01 15:40:58 +0000, Michael Moroney said:

> There is a NTP-based DDOS going on, and VMS systems will participate.
> ...
> I'll reply to this when I find a good way to handle this.

Here’s a write-up on and a workaround for the NTP DDoS, pending an 
upgrade to a newer version of NTP:

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/NTP+reflection+attack/17300

This is the US CERT alert:

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-013A

I'd expect the workaround applies to OpenVMS, as well.

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