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Interesting writeup on the Krebs DDoS

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Hack-a-Day (great web site, btw, for hardware and software stuff) has an excellent writeup and perspective on the Krebs DDOS that went down a week or so ago...

Many of the "bots" were IOT based items, including, but not limited just to routers, IP cameras and the like...

http://hackaday.com/2016/09/29/distributed-censorship-or-extortion-the-iot-vs-brian-krebs/

Stay safe out there - be mindful of what devices and ports you expose, and if not certain, then don't...
 
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