CCTV cameras? You’ve been looking in the wrong place Security researchers have discovered a “missing link” in the Mirai botnet that may prompt a rethink in what makes up the zombie network.…
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Origin of the beasties: Mirai botnet missing link revealed as DVR player
Google engineers offer guidance to keep application developers from shooting themselves in the foot. In the wake of the last month’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a DNS management service, Google engineers want to remind application developers that self-harm represents a more realistic risk.…
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How to avoid DDoSing yourself
IT admins are having a hell of an evening? You can bet on it! Well, on another website William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.…
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Bookmakers William Hill under siege from DDoS internet flood
Recent cyber-attacks using botnet armies of hacked “internet of things” devices highlights the pressing need for improved security.
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Smart home threat
SOHOpeless CCTVs and video recorders It shouldn’t surprise anyone that closed circuit television (CCTV) rigs are becoming the world’s favourite botnet hosts: pretty much any time a security researcher looks at a camera, it turns out to be a buggy mess.…
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Hungarian bug-hunters spot 130,000 vulnerable Avtech vid systems on Shodan
Do try this at home – but carefully The SANS Institute is hoping sysadmins can help it to do what vendors won’t: improve Internet of Things security.…
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SANS issues call to arms to battle IoT botnets
Hackforums leak Malicious code used to press-gang IoT connected devices into a botnet was leaked online over the weekend.…
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Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet
Hacked low-powered cameras and internet-of-things things The world’s largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack has been clocked from the same network of 152,463 compromised low-powered cameras and internet-of-things devices which punted a media outlet off the internet.…
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152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS
Internet of Amazingly Insecure Tat? That’s the one The huge distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which wiped security journalist Brian Krebs’ website from the internet came from a million-device-strong Internet of Things botnet.…
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Security man Krebs’ website DDoS was powered by hacked Internet of Things botnet
600 Gbps traffic flood overwhelmed CDN Google has provided free distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) mitigation services to security publication Krebs on Security , stepping in after Akamai withdrew support.…
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Google rushes in where Akamai fears to tread, shields Krebs after world’s-worst DDoS