Monetizing Botnets and the Internet of Targets

frankbell · 12-13-2017, 10:07 PM

The Inky--sorry, Philadelphia Inquirer, I used to live in the Philly area and subscribed to the Inky--reports on a Rutgers student who went to the Dark Side. A nugget:

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A former Rutgers University computer-science student has pleaded guilty to launching cyberattacks that laid siege to Rutgers’ computer network and remotely enslaved millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices throughout the United States.

The malware implanted on the IoT devices was later used to cause one of worst outages in the history of the internet when it was unleashed Oct. 21, 2016.

hazel · 12-14-2017, 06:45 AM

I wish they wouldn't call these people "hackers". They are nothing but criminals!

sundialsvcs · 12-14-2017, 08:06 AM

But it also points out how foolish we are being in implementing our "Internet of Things." As many experts have repeatedly warned, we are not paying any attention to security.