The recent massive DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn has jolted (some of) the general public and legislators, and has opened their eyes to the danger of insecure IoT devices. It is clear by now that it will take joint action by all stakeholders – users, manufacturers, the security industry, ISPs, law enforcement and legislators – to put an end to this particular problem, but it will take quite some time. Theoretical stopgap solutions In … More ?

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Can we extinguish the Mirai threat?