Something fishy going on as university suffers IoT-vectored denial of service attack

An unnamed university has reported a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack stemming from its own Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These are said to have included connected vending machines and light bulbs.

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Default passwords are the routers of all evil

All these Mirai BotNet stories can’t be helping the IoT industry can they? Still, on the basis that all publicity is good publicity, perhaps some good will come out of the recent network hijackings.

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Deutsche Telekom sees 900,000 routers go offline after possible failure of cyberattack

Almost 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers were hit by network outages — an attack reportedly aimed at hijacking consumer routers, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

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Hacker releases source code of Mirai DDoS Trojan after targeting the IoT this weekend

Over the weekend, a code was reportedly employed on a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices to form a botnet. The botnet was then deployed to attack websites with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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