Re:Ask HN: Is it illegal to combat DDOS with a virus?
by AznHisoka on Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:28PM
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Don't most of these devices send an unique user agent indicating what type of device it's from?
If so why not block based on that?
Re:Ask HN: Is it illegal to combat DDOS with a virus?
by RandomlyGen on Sunday October 23, 2016 @01:21AM
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You'd still need to parse the UA, which takes resources. Plus the attackers have root. What's preventing them from spoofing the UA?
I'd just suggest using the scanning portion to identify unsecured connections that should be added to a firewall's blacklist.
Maybe that could be a good SAAS service that would provide a blacklist of all unsecured IOT devices and printers to everyone interested for blacklisting purposes.