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by techman9 3028 days ago
If you don't know what you're doing, it's easy to misconfigure iptables or whatever and inadvertently allow traffic from the internet to Memcached.

A quick Shodan search[1] shows like 90k boxes publicly accessible Memcached. Misconfiguration of firewalls is a serious problem.

[1] https://www.shodan.io/search?query=11211