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IoT as a Land of Opportunity for DDoS Hackers.

In 2016, Mirai showed the destructive potential of a botnet composed exclusively of Internet of Things devices. To evaluate the current state of anti-DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) protection for such devices, the authors studied webcams—discovered by Shodan—and found that most have little to...

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Publicado en:Computer (00189162) Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 26 - 35
Autores principales: Vlajic, Natalija, Zhou, Daiwei
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: IEEE Jul2018
Materias:
Internet of things
Denial of service attacks
Computer hackers
Internet security
Firewalls (Computer security)
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Sumario:In 2016, Mirai showed the destructive potential of a botnet composed exclusively of Internet of Things devices. To evaluate the current state of anti-DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) protection for such devices, the authors studied webcams—discovered by Shodan—and found that most have little to no firewall protection and, as such, are vulnerable to future direct and reflective DDoS attacks.