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ExtremeTech Plex Media Servers Being Used to Amplify DDoS Attacks By Ryan Whitwam on February 5, 2021 at 1:04 pm This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. A new network security issue is causing headaches for the victims of DDoS attacks. According to security firm Netscout, several DDoS services have found a way to use Plex Media Servers to amplify the junk traffic they fire off toward targets during attacks. The researchers claim that...

PC World New Zealand 5 things I learned while setting up my first media server Sure, you can spend a fortune setting up a media server for your music and videos, but it turns out you don’t have to. Credit: Ben Patterson/IDG For years, there was a lonely Raspberry Pi 3 gathering dust on my desk, right next to a cup of pens and a stack of Post-Its. Occasionally I’d pick it up and absent-mindedly twirl it around, as if it were a stress ball. But during a long holiday break, an idea ...

Plex Media servers actively abused to amplify DDoS attacks By 10:54 AM Plex Media Server systems are actively being abused by DDoS-for-hire services as a UDP reflection/amplification vector in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Plex Media Server provides users with a streaming system compatible with the Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD platforms, as well as network-attached storage (NAS) devices, Docker containers, and more. Netscout says that amplified PMSSDP DDoS attacks observe...

Media management software Plex is expanding into the world of retro video games. For $2.99 per month with a Plex Pass (or $4.99 without), you can tap into Plex Arcades licensed catalog of Atari titles, including Centipede, Lunar Lander, and Motor Psycho, as well as your own collection of game ROMs and emulators. "The genesis of Plex saw us casting a disdainful eye over shelves of CDs, DVDs, and random files strewn over hard drives; we knew there had to be a better way to centrally organize and ...

Game On: A Plex Blog Story It should come as no surprise that we here at Plex are media lovers. Consummate curators of all that streamy goodness. Voracious imbibers at the fount of all content. Okay, gross, but you get the point. Anyway, every so often an armchair Reddit philosopher comes forth to question some basic truths: “What exactly is the nature of ‘Media’?” they ask. And “How can Plex help us media lovers more fully consummate our curationship?” Okay, sorry, gross again. But...

Photo: NurPhoto/Getty Images As a superuser of Google goods and services, the last few months, like 2020 in general, has had me rethink how I approach my digital life. Of all the things I use my smartphones for, music and photos are near the top of that list. I’ve had a system that works, and recent changes by Google have forced me to reevaluate my options. Requiem for Google Play Music Back in 2013, Google introduced Google Play Music, a music streaming service with an incredibly ample libra...

Source: Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central If you have a lot of locally-stored media and want to stream it to various connected devices in your home, youll need a local streaming client like Plex. All you need to do is install Plex Media Server on the device where your media collection is housed. Ideally, that should be a home server like a NAS — Ive rounded up the best NAS for Plex, so if you dont already have a storage enclosure, you can look through the list to get started. Plex itself ...

The Nvidia Shield TV Pro is the top of the Nvidia Shield TV lineup and offers some of the best features. Its a powerful machine with great internals, too. You get Nvidias Tegra X1+ chip along with next-generation AI upscaling so everything you watch is in the highest resolution possible, which includes upscaling HD content to 4K. It also has two USB 3.0 ports, which you can use for everything from storage expansion to USB peripherals to gaming controllers. Theres a Plex Media Server built in, w...

DIY Dynamic DNS Using Netlify API Get link I dont really need to send many calls back to my network at my house when I am away, but when I want to show someone the progress we are making on the family Minecraft Christmas village, it is nice to be able to call to a Mapcrafter server at my house. This is the current family Minecraft Christmas Village. The image is generated by Mapcrafter using this group of Bash scripts. Now I dont have a business internet line at my house, so my IP can change t...