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Title: 2012-05-17 h-online.com: DoS vulnerability in Bitcoin
Post by: PawShaker on May 18, 2012, 02:14:31 AM
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DoS vulnerability in Bitcoin

17 May 2012, 18:00

The developers of Bitcoin, the anonymous digital currency system, have fixed a flaw in the system which allowed malicious users to perform denial of service (DoS) attacks on a victim's node, causing it to stop receiving updates from the Bitcoin network.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/DoS-vulnerability-in-Bitcoin-1578558.html (http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/DoS-vulnerability-in-Bitcoin-1578558.html)

Another publication of the same text:
http://squadpc.net/dos-vulnerability-in-bitcoin (http://squadpc.net/dos-vulnerability-in-bitcoin)