Saturday, October 22, 2016

Hackers Wrecked the Internet Today Using DVRs and Webcams

Article Title: Hackers Wrecked the Internet Today Using DVRs and Webcams
Snippet of Article: "...Last month, security researcher Bruce Schneier started sounding the alarm that someone or something was carefully probing the internet for weakness. A scary prospect on its own, and one followed shortly thereafter by the full release of the Mirai code for any ne'er-do-well to use. Today's attack, it would seem, is a confluence of these two events: An attacker who has been carefully surveying the internet for weak points is now openly wielding one of the most capable blunt weapons we've ever seen blast the web. The most terrifying part: This is probably only the beginning..."


Source: www.popularmechanics.com

[tag] Federal Employee News, Federal Civil Service, Distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), Cyber Attacks, Dyn, Mirai code, [/tag]