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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 a Plex server, properly utilized, can increase the size of DDoS packets by almost five times, makin...

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 started forming in my head: Could I actually turn this glorified paperweight into something useful?

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 observed since November 2020 have been abusing UDP/32414 SSDP HTTP/U responses from exposed broadband Inter...

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 Arcade's 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 curate our media collections," the team wrote in a blog post. "But there was one category left on t...

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 it’s a fair question, and one that deserves a little more attention. Not to date ourselves, but q...