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Botnet has grown by exploiting weak security on a range of IoT devices.Read More Continue reading Mirai: what you need to know about the botnet behind recent major DDoS attacks
Last week the Dyn DNS DDoS took out most of the East coast US websites including monsters like Spotify, Twitter, Netflix, Github, Heroku and many more. Hopefully it wasn’t because I shared the Mirai source code and some script kiddies got hold of it and decided to talk half of the US websites out. A […]
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Attacks that took down Dyn appear to have been “rented” from multiple botnets. Continue reading How one rent-a-botnet army of cameras, DVRs caused Internet chaos
Researchers at Flashpoint said Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn was likely the work of script kiddies and not advanced attackers. Continue reading Dyn DDoS Work of Script Kiddies, Not Politically Motivated Hackers
The co-founder of the newly launched Senate Cybersecurity Caucus is pushing federal agencies for possible solutions and responses to the security threat from insecure “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, such as the network of hacked security cameras and digital video recorders that were reportedly used to help bring about last Friday’s major Internet outages. Continue reading Senator Prods Federal Agencies on IoT Mess
A Chinese electronics firm pegged by experts as responsible for making many of the components leveraged in last week’s massive attack that disrupted Twitter and dozens of popular Web sites has vowed to recall some of its vulnerable products, even as it threatened legal action against this publication and others for allegedly defaming the company’s brand. Continue reading IoT Device Maker Vows Product Recall, Legal Action Against Western Accusers
In the wake of the Dyn attack, let’s make it harder for the crooks to co-opt us into helping them… Continue reading Dyn DDoS – what can we do right now to help prevent the next attack?
Huge armies of infected devices are attacking everyone. Even each other. Continue reading Twitter Account Shows Mirai Botnets Using Your Security Camera In Cyber Turf War
If you own Internet of Things devices, it’s time to lock it down. Continue reading Find Out If One of Your Devices Helped Break the Internet
Ten percent of the 550,000 IoT nodes in the Mirai botnet are involved in ongoing DDoS attacks against DNS provider Dyn and others. Continue reading Mirai-Fueled IoT Botnet Behind DDoS Attacks on DNS Providers