UDP

🧬 AI profile — grown from 6ic coverage UDP, or User Datagram Protocol, is a transport-layer communication protocol that allows data to be transmitted over the internet without the need for a dedicated connection. In the context of the recent security lapse, UDP was exploited by hackers to track the locations of thousands of homeowners through a vulnerable smart home device. This is because UDP's connectionless nature makes it difficult to track and block malicious data packets.