[Info-vax] [Change topic] VMS systems botnets

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-10-28, Roy Omond <roy at omond.net> wrote:
> On 27/10/16 12:03, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> [...snip...]
>
>> I've cleaned up various
>> down-revision or misconfigured OpenVMS boxes that were parts of botnets.
>
>> [...snip...]
>
>> Running old software — particularly on servers exposed to the 'net — is
>> risky at best, and more than a few folks with OpenVMS servers have
>> gotten bagged into botnets due to down-revision network services, or
>> other issues.
>
> Hoff, I'd appreciate if you could expand on this.  How were these VMS
> systems acting as botnets ?

For one thing, VMS systems have been used for the NTP DDOS
amplification/reflection attacks.

Simon.

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