Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release. Continue reading Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

ESP8266 Controls TiVo Over the Network

Remember the TiVo? The set-top DVR that was once so popular of a hacking target that Hackaday had a dedicated subdomain for it has today largely faded into obscurity as time-shifted viewing has given way to Internet streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. But make no mistake, while the TiVo …read more

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Command Line Utilities… in the Cloud?

Although many people think of Linux-based operating systems as graphical, really that GUI is just another application running over the bare operating system. Power users, remote administrators, and people running underpowered computers like a Raspberry Pi have a tendency to do more with command line tools. [Igor] did a FOSDEM19 presentation you can see below about how he’s providing web-like services to the command line using web servers and curl as a client.

This is subtly different from just accessing an ordinary web server via curl. The output is meant for display in the terminal. Of course, you could also …read more

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Sophisticated IoT Botnet Torii Uses 6 Persistence Methods

Security researchers have uncovered a new botnet targeting Linux-based devices that’s more sophisticated than Mirai and most other IoT botnets observed so far. Researchers from antivirus vendor Avast have dubbed the new botnet Torii because its … Continue reading Sophisticated IoT Botnet Torii Uses 6 Persistence Methods