Last month the Mirai botnet took down Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other web sites by compromising cheap Chinese web cams and weaponizing them. While the attack was very interesting and could have been a lot worse, I attributed it to it being a cheap Chinese web cam. Hundreds of thousands of them. Now an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The most recent distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) meant that most people could not get to Twitter. While that was awful and may have forced a few people to actually work instead of tweeting, for the most part, that was not a big deal. In fairness to the DYN attack, there were actually hundreds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Maybe a little good will come from the day the Internet died last week. And maybe, also, a little bad. To very briefly recap, attackers using the now free and open source malware Marai attacked Dyn’s servers. Dyn provides DNS services to the likes of Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other companies. The attack against […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are combining the Internet of Things with a 12 year old open source software bug and creating a potential mess. Last week tens of thousands of hacked Internet of (in-secure) Things devices created a 600 gigabit per second attack against a security blogger’s web site and just after that, these devices created a terabit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, you don’t have to check your calendar, it is not April Fools Day and Yes, they really do want to do that. Along with the rest of your medical devices. Some of you may remember that when Dick Cheney was Veep, they modified his pacemaker so that the bad guys couldn’t take him out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have said before, the Internet of Things is going to be a bit of a security ‘challenge’. Here is just one simple example. The security company Rapid7 analyzed a number of home video baby monitors. You know, the kind where you can put a monitor in the bedroom and you or the […]
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