This year’s Security Analyst Summit is previewed and the news of the week is discussed, including a Microsoft IIS zero day, a new Mirai variant, and the broadband privacy ruling.
Tag Archives: Mirai
I DDoS-ed the sheriff, but I did not DDoS the deputy
It’s the Wild, Wild West out there when it comes to Distributed Denial of Service attacks(DDoS), and the IoT is not going to peace to the prairies. Brian Krebs, one of the leading cybercrime reporters, just published an epic takedown of the person behind the Mirai malware. Yes, that Mirai used to launch record-breaking DDoS […]
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Threatpost News Wrap, December 16, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including Yahoo’s latest breach announcement, a DDoS-for-hire crackdown, hackers seeking help with Mirai, and some new Adobe patches.
Threatpost News Wrap, December 8, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest Linux bug, Sony closing backdoors in cameras, and Google’s new open source fuzzer.
Has anyone hacked my IoT?
Forget about those big attacks, what about little me?
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Sierra Wireless Warns Cellular Data Gear Targeted by Mirai Malware
Sierra Wireless warns that its AirLink gateways are being infected by the Mirai malware, and urges customers to change default passwords on devices.