Posted on 10/21/2016 6:31:40 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
According to researchers at security firm Flashpoint, today’s attack was launched at least in part by a Mirai-based botnet. Allison Nixon, director of research at Flashpoint, said the botnet used in today’s ongoing attack is built on the backs of hacked IoT devices — mainly compromised digital video recorders (DVRs) and IP cameras made by a Chinese hi-tech company called XiongMai Technologies. The components that XiongMai makes are sold downstream to vendors who then use it in their own products.
“It’s remarkable that virtually an entire company’s product line has just been turned into a botnet that is now attacking the United States,” Nixon said, noting that Flashpoint hasn’t ruled out the possibility of multiple botnets being involved in the attack on Dyn.
(Excerpt) Read more at krebsonsecurity.com ...
No coincidence this happened after Obama turned over control of the Internet to our enemies.
None at all.
Which is why i refuse to connect my Direct Tv to the internet.
The internet of things apparently has some risks associated with it.
Well Well gone is the line in a slightly earlier version of this same story- blaming it on users who have not patched there devices. I must not be the only one that called them on that.
This has nothing to do with it. The attack coordination is against the very systems we “handed over.” In reality, we ceded oversight of the addressing system for the Internet. This attack is being coordinated in retaliation for the US government requesting Assange’s Internet be cut. I believe that wholeheartedly.
And for the record, folks, this is what a future of cyberwarfare will look like. All of this is smoke and mirrors for more insidious goings on. Give it 6-10 months, and we’ll hear about major corps or government entities being compromised while all of this was going on.
Learn how to use terrestrial radio or stock your library with some good paperbacks.
You’re not going to like Internet of Things. It will log your life, your thoughts and images of you and your wife. All in the name of marketing research but most useful for controlling the population. It might be a good topic at a State’s Rights Convention.
I can imagine that internet connectivity for things might be made illegal at some point.
With so much crap being made in China, what are the odds that most of it has botware preinstalled just waiting for the activation codes to be sent by Beijing?
Official app for Indianapolis Colts may be spying on you
http://wishtv.com/2016/10/21/official-app-for-indianapolis-colts-may-be-spying-on-you/
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Colts fans, the team’s smartphone app may be spying on you.
The official app for the Indianapolis Colts does more than give the latest stats and injury updates, it also eavesdrops on users’ conversations, according to a fan who is suing the team and the app developer.
The suit claims the app is “systematically and surreptitiously intercepting consumers’ oral communications” whether they are watching the game at work, check the waiver wire at home or cheering on quarterback Andrew Luck at Lucas Oil Stadium.
The founder of the company that created the technology in the app denied the allegations, saying the company does not collect or share any personal information and does not record audio.
But, but Russians...or something.
Someone with two young children, I long for the days of no internet. I would miss this site though.
Jim has been a staple for freedom and truth.
The odds are 100% and it is going to get worse.
Didn’t we outfit our military planes with Chinese parts not to long ago?
Ya think?
It's a travesty, after all the years, even decades, of monumental efforts to secure desktops, laptops, servers... the IoT introduces insane numbers of uncontrolled insecure devices to the internet.
What could possibly go wrong?
Not only parts but the chips in the planes' computers. And we found chips with "backdoors."
I’m sure if we don’t have overt Chinese parts then the we have bootleg parts that some traitor bought that have some Chinese guts inside them. There are programs to built unforgeable part involving things like physically unclonable functions (PUF) but I don’t think we ready for widespread use of those techniques yet.
Internet Security Nightmare of Things bump for later....
Dumber than shit we are. : (
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