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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by yashinm92 on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:07AM (#12562638)
This was a mixed traffic botnet. There are speculations that a large chunk was from compromised IoT devices.
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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by matt_wulfeck on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:48AM (#12562783)
How many IoT devices are out on the public internet at the moment?

and for the existing IOT devices, are they the same thing, or were different exploits used for different devices?

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by yashinm92 on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:11AM (#12563278)
How many on the public internet? Too many. Here are close to 100k IP cameras on the public internet: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=ip+camera

Again, the speculation that it is IoT devices is unfortunately just that. However massive compromise of internet connected embedded device is not new: http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by Spare_account on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:44AM (#12562979)
Are there any good quality articles you can link to discussing this?
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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by yashinm92 on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:15AM (#12563295)
Good quality? I'm not sure. Just speculation on this one post: https://www.hackread.com/brian-krebs-website-665-gbps-ddos-a...
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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by abricot on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:19AM (#12563312)
A botnet of coffee machines, thermostats and Teslas? :D
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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by dharma1 on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:28AM (#12563127)
Got a source for that? Thanks
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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by yashinm92 on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:13AM (#12563288)
Just this link: https://www.hackread.com/brian-krebs-website-665-gbps-ddos-a...

I'm a bit concerned about the reliability of that report since there are no strong proofs for their claim.

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Re:Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘rec... by dharma1 on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:35AM (#12563542)
Interesting. Here's a bit more on IoT botnets

http://blog.level3.com/security/attack-of-things/

Good luck updating those embedded linux devices, or even alerting the people who own them

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