Tag: ddos
IoT under attack
by Prachi Jain on August 3, 2018 12:05 am
There’s a common joke regarding connected gadgets that the ‘S’ in IoT stands for security. And yes there is no ‘S’. With the propagation of Internet of Things, the number of connected devices is estimated to grow sevenfold the number of owners of those devices. The security of these devices and as a result, the… Read more IoT under attack
The 2016 Dyn Attack and its Lessons for IoT Security
by Claire Wang on July 30, 2018 10:11 pm
On October 21, 2016, the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took place, shutting down most of the Internet, including Twitter, Amazon, GitHub, and the New York Times.[1] The attack targeted Dyn, a company that services a large share of the internet’s domain name system (DNS) infrastructure, and lasted for most of the day.… Read more The 2016 Dyn Attack and its Lessons for IoT Security
