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A comment on Ask HN: How did Dyn fail to fend off DDOS?.

Re:Ask HN: How did Dyn fail to fend off DDOS? by gagan2020 on Saturday October 22, 2016 @01:41PM (#12769658)
Just thinking, Is there any chinese production of IOT involved? might be firmware involved?
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Re:Ask HN: How did Dyn fail to fend off DDOS? by sn41 on Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:01PM (#12769764)
That's what the following blog claims:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/hacked-cameras-dvrs-powe...

I don't know any other independent researcher who confirms this.

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Re:Ask HN: How did Dyn fail to fend off DDOS? by gagan2020 on Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:17PM (#12769853)
That's interesting since they faced the attack so they could have data to analyze that. Apart from firmware, chinese companies also pushing UC browser and WeChat like anything.
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Re:Ask HN: How did Dyn fail to fend off DDOS? by ag_47 on Saturday October 22, 2016 @01:58PM (#12769748)
Here's a pretty fun 2 year old talk from Blackhat, re surveillance camera firmware and how s*tty they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8DjTcANBx0
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