The Chinese manufacturer Xiongmai calls up to 10,000 security cameras back that have been involved in the DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) of last week Friday.
Then were there three times, websites including Spotify, Twitter and the Radar shut down. The total number of devices that was involved in the attack, is a lot higher.
That writes news agency Reuters. The cameras, which are intended to houses and shops in the holes to keep, were part of a so-called botnet. That is a network of devices without the owners know – data firing on a server. Because of the very large amounts of data, the server can not.
Also has Xiongmai adjustments done in other products, allowing users to choose a password can choose. That abuse is more difficult to create.
The attacks were aimed at Dyn, a network company that the DNS servers manages (domain name system). They act as a kind of digital phone book: as a people “facebook.com” typing, adjusts the system takes users to the right place come true. Because the servers flat went, visitors were no longer forwarded and went to the websites offline.
Remarkable about the attack is that the network does not exist from normal desktop computers with poor security, but from cameras, baby monitors, and other devices that are increasingly constantly connected to the internet. That category is the ‘internet of things’. Experts warned there very soon after the attacks that they are likely to become more prevalent.
In the growing number of devices hooked up to the internet and the security is not always in order. Thus, they are easy to hack and abuse it. On the internet all packages of 50,000 or 100,000 of these internet of things offered for sale to use in a botnet.
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