IoT botnets
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Data Breaches Through Wearables Put Target Squarely on IoT in 2017
Ryan Francis | Java World | January 3, 2017
Security needs to be baked into IoT devices for there to be any chance of halting a DDoS attack, according to security experts. Read More »
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IoT Botnets Are Growing—and Up for Hire
Jamie Condliffe | MIT Technology Review | November 30, 2016
The army of Internet-connected devices being corralled and controlled to take down online services is active, growing—and up for grabs. Internet of things botnets—collections of devices hacked to work with one another to send debilitating surges of data to servers—have been blamed for several recent Internet failures. Most notably, the servers of domain name system host Dyn were taken down last month, affecting connectivity across large swaths of the East Coast of the U.S...
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