In the fallout from last Friday’s distributed denial of service attacks on DNS (Domain Name Service) hosting provider Dyn, one question has been on everyone’s mind: How could an attack like this happen? Dyn said in a statement that the tens of millions of IP addresses associated with the attack were from IoT devices that had been infected with the same Mirai malware used in the … [Read more...]
Another IoT Botnet Derails Dyn, Major Websites
Twitter, Amazon, Spotify and Reddit were among a large group of major websites that suffered significant outages on October 21 as a result of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on DNS (Domain Name Service) hosting provider, Dyn. The attack was made possible by enormous clusters of hacked IoT devices like DVRs and cameras. It’s been reported that tens of millions of IP … [Read more...]
Password Reuse Botnet – Daily Security Byte EP. 265
Botnets are best know for DDoS attacks, where they generate huge floods of traffic that overwhelm their victims. However, newer botnets are slowing down their attacks to try stolen passwords on banking and e-commerce sites. Watch today's video for a reminder of why not to reuse your password everywhere. (Episode Runtime: 1:44) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
#OpNasaDrones Hack – Daily Security Byte EP. 210
A hacking group calling themselves AnonSec claims to have hacked NASA's network, and shared a 250GB dump of NASA drone data to back up the claim. Meanwhile, NASA says the data is public, and claims they can't find evidence of a breach. Whether or not AnonSec's story is fiction, I think you can learn from it. Watch today's Byte episode to learn how. (Episode Runtime: … [Read more...]
Attacker DDoSes the Internet – Daily Security Byte EP. 190
Can hackers knock out the Internet? Probably not, but it look like attackers tried to disrupt DNS recent by launching a distributed denial of service attack against the root DNS servers. Watch today's video to learn how the IT community can make it harder for attackers to launch reflected attacks. (Episode Runtime: 4:04) Direct YouTube … [Read more...]
