9/23/16

Internet of Things and DDoS

IoT (Internet of Things) transforms the industries with the ability to connect, communicate with, and remotely managed automated devices via internet. This is the future in today, but the main problem is that it is relatively new in the industries. Because of the new concept, and the high and fast competition of the manufacturers, security has not always been considered in product design. In this case of competition, it is more important to put the product on the market faster. Furthermore, they cannot keep pace with rapidly changing techniques of hacking. Many IoT products are sold with old and unpatched embedded operating systems and software.

We already heard that IoT devices been targeted by malwares. However, concepts of the attacks to IoT devices are changing day by day. The attackers are more interested in to use these devices to perform DDoS attacks.

You can find a detailed investigation about the DDoS attacks made by IoT devices in Symantec’ s new blog;



It seems, these types of attacks will increase day by day, with the increasing diversity of the IoT devices. 

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