The creators of the Mirai botnet pleaded guilty earlier this month in an Anchorage courtroom. The Mirai botnet unleashed a distributed denial of service attack on the French cellular carrier OVH and another DDoS attack against DYN, the DNS provider for Amazon, Netflix and many other heavy duty web sites. The DDoS attacks took those […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, this is not a new Bond movie; it is, instead, an example of one of the many weaknesses of an Internet that was never designed to handle malicious attackers. I will try to make this as non-technical as I can, but it will be a bit technical, so please stay with me. Larger Internet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Mirai botnet infected a couple hundred thousand Internet of Things devices last year by seeing if the default userid and password was not changed. If it was not changed, it took over the device. That attack then took down Dyn, a very high end DNS service. When Dyn went down, so did Dyn’s customers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: What do you do if you are a company who’s software is buggy and who is outed by a well respected journalist – Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin. One approach would be to apologize. Keeper Software’s idea is to sue the journalist for false and misleading statements. The alternative would be to sue the researcher, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers tried to do this the right way with no luck so now they are seeing if bad publicity will get the job done. AT&T Directv creates a private wireless network to transfer video, audio and the user interface between it’s wireless slave boxes hanging off the back of your TVs and the DVR that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Russian hacker has confessed in court to hacking the DNC during last year’s election. The Russian web site that is reporting this has not been friendly to Putin, so there are lots of dimensions to this conversation. The web site says that Konstantin Kozlovsky stated that he was doing this on the direction of Russian […]
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