Hi,
If you are running a memcached server please make sure that it
either doesn't listen on UDP or else that it is properly firewalled.
Publicly available memcached servers can provide a 50,000x traffic
amplification:
<https://blog.cloudflare.com/memcrashed-major-amplification-attacks-from-port-11211/>
As there is no authentication in the memcached protocol, having it
publicly available is generally a misconfiguration anyway.
We will start scanning for and nagging about this soon.
Cheers,
Andy
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