[SystemSafety] Interesting IoT attack

[Mike Ellims]

Good morning,

 

Sorry – getting behind on my getting behind; again.

 

Matthew wrote:

> I wonder who's working on weaponising this right now?

 

Don’t know who, but people are (possibly).

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/26/ddos-attack-dyn-mirai-botnet

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/21/ddos-attack-dyn-internet-denial-service

 

I was reading it when The Guardian went west... or possibly East.

 

From: systemsafety [mailto:systemsafety-bounces at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de] On Behalf Of Matthew Squair
Sent: 07 November 2016 20:37
To: martyn at thomas-associates.co.uk
Cc: systemsafety at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Subject: Re: [SystemSafety] Interesting IoT attack

 

Hmm... I wonder who's working on weaponising this right now? 

 

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:46 AM, Martyn Thomas <martyn at thomas-associates.co.uk> wrote:

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~eyalro/iotworm/iotworm.pdf <http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/%7Eeyalro/iotworm/iotworm.pdf> 
 
Martyn


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