Hacker Lexicon: What Is Sinkholing?
Hacker Lexicon: What Is Sinkholing?
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
January 2, 20186m 15s
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Show Notes
When you have tons of leftovers you put them in Tupperware. When you have an excess of phone calls, you send them to voicemail. And when you have a deluge of junk from a botnet attacking your network, you put all that malicious traffic into a sinkhole. Sinkholing is a technique for manipulating data flow in a network; you redirect traffic from its intended destination to the server of your choosing.
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