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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No wonder we’re being hit by Internet of Things botnets. Ever tried patching a Thing?
Akamai CSO laments pisspoor security design practices Internet of Things devices are starting to pose a real threat to security for the sensible part of the web, Akamai’s chief security officer Andy Ellis has told The Register .…
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152k cameras in 990Gbps record-breaking dual DDoS
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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Security man Krebs’ website DDoS was powered by hacked Internet of Things botnet
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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Google rushes in where Akamai fears to tread, shields Krebs after world’s-worst DDoS
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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IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia’s census
Bureau of Stats says spooks signed off IBM’s plan, but Big Blue mucked something up Australia’s Bureau of Statistics has heavily criticised IBM for the security it applied to the nation’s failed online census, which was taken offline after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that battered a curiously flimsy defensive shield.…
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OpenSSL swats a dozen bugs, one notable nasty
Denial of service dross dead. A dozen flaws have been patched in OpenSSL, including one high severity hole that allows denial of service attacks.…
Infected Android phones could flood America’s 911 with DDoS attacks
One killer trojanised app or $100k of hardware is enough. A research trio has shown how thousands of malware-infected phones could launch automated distributed denial of service attacks to cripple the US emergency phone system “for days”.…
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Israeli Pentagon DDoSers explain their work, get busted by FBI
There’s not much more than fine print between stress testing and DDoS-as-a-service Two Israeli men have been arrested for running a distributed-denial-of service-as-a-service site, after one seemingly claimed to attack the Pentagon.…
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Linode fends off multiple DDOS attacks
Nowhere near as bad as its ten-day Christmas cracker, but something seems to be afoot Cloud hosting outfit Linode has again come under significant denial of service (DoS) attack.…
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Linode fends off multiple DDOS attacks