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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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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 26 - 35
Main Authors: Vlajic, Natalija, Zhou, Daiwei
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Jul2018
Subjects:
Internet of things
Denial of service attacks
Computer hackers
Internet security
Firewalls (Computer security)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.