Many network security audits uncover weak security practices in regards to layer 3 protocols used to build corporate routing tables.

The RIPv1 routing protocol is being used to launch DDoS attacks against many hosts on the Internet, according to an Akamai threat report Routing Information Protocol (RIP), an obsolete network ...

DDoS attacks can be amplified through SOHO routers that still use the Routing Information Protocol version 1, researchers warn.