{"id":390,"date":"2016-10-24T11:57:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.glasswire.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2022-10-11T08:18:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T13:18:51","slug":"the-internet-of-sht-is-finally-here-and-it-sure-does-stink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glasswire.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/the-internet-of-sht-is-finally-here-and-it-sure-does-stink\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet of Sh*t is finally here, and it sure does stink!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You may have heard recently how the popular security blog Krebs on Security<\/a> was taken offline by a record DDOS attack<\/a> along with Friday’s major attack on DynDNS.<\/p>\n

The reason these attacks are newsworthy is because the attacks are so massive that even the best anti-DDOS systems like Akamai\u2019s could not keep Krebs or DynDNS online.  Cloudflare recently posted some visualizations<\/a> to show how large these types of attacks can be.<\/p>\n

The reason these attacks were so powerful was because they were created from a botnet of \u201cInternet of Things<\/a>\u201d devices that are unsecured by default, also known as the \u201cInternet of Sh*t<\/a>\u201d.  Hackers created this new botnet called Mirai<\/a> that searches the Internet for unsecured  DVRs and IP cameras with default passwords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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i am excited for my bottle of wine to DDoS the US https:\/\/t.co\/YhHXOqzcRJ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) October 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n