back to article BitTorrent kills bug that turns networks into a website-slaying weapon

BitTorrent has fixed a flaw in its technology that quietly turns file-sharing networks into weapons capable of blasting websites and other internet servers offline. The San Francisco company said Thursday the patch for its libuTP software will stop miscreants from abusing the peer-to-peer protocol to launch distributed …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    As long as torrenters upgrade, it's not a problem...

    So it's a massive problem then :/

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