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ET Cyber Monday Deals: Lenovo UHD gaming laptop $1200, XPS 8700 with 750Ti $1000, Chromebox $130, more

December 02, 2014

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Fancy running your own botnet, hijacking control of Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as internet-enabled CCTV cameras and routers to bombard websites with distributed denial-of-service attacks? Well, it's just been made that little bit easier for you, with the release of the source code of Mirai, a family of malware capable of rapidly recruiting an army of poorly-protected devices and the commanding to launch attacks. Security blogger Brian Krebs reports : Just such an attack knocked Krebs' website offline at the end of last month with what is thought to have been one of the largest DDoS attacks ever seen, after he exposed information about the inner-workings of vDOS, a DDoS-for-hire service. Millions of new IoT devices are being plugged into the net every day, and many of them will have weak security just waiting to be exploited by online criminals. The flaws can range from shipping with default passwords that users never bother to change, to weak or non-existent e...

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