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FTC Seeks Automatic IoT Patching Tool, Offers $25K Prize

05

Jan

2017

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced an IoT competition, dubbed “FTC IoT Home Inspector Challenge”, promising $25,000 to whomever presents a viable solution for automatically guarding or patching IoT software vulnerabilities. The proposed tool is meant to help consumers keep their home network smart devices safe from hackers, to prevent them from being […]

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Dozens arrested in international DDoS-for-hire crackdown

13

Dec

2016

Law enforcement agencies arrested 34 suspects in 13 countries, including the U.K and the U.S., as part of a crackdown last week on DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The arrests targeted buyers of DDoS-for-hire services, which get paid to flood websites or internet-connected systems with traffic, forcing them to go offline. Read More

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Attackers use hacked home routers to hit Russia’s 5 largest banks

12

Dec

2016

Botnets made up of hacked home routers were used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against the five largest financial organizations in Russia. The attacks occurred on Monday, Dec. 5, and were detected and mitigated by Rostelecom, Russia’s state-owned telecommunications company. The attacks peaked at 3.2 million packets per second (Mpps) and the longest attack lasted […]

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