Every day it seems we're closer to Cyberpunk 2020... Bruce Johnson 29 Jun 2016 19:02 UTC
At work, I get a chunk of the DHS “Daily Open Source Infrastructure Report” that’s distributed to our campus it discussion list. (usually the Critical Manufacturing Sector and Information Technology Sector stuff) https://www.dhs.gov/publication/daily-open-source-infrastructure-report This came up in today’s excerpt: 7. June 28, Help Net Security – (International) 25,000-strong CCTV botnet used for crippling DDoS attacks. Sucuri researchers discovered that a closed circuit television (CCTV) botnet comprised of 25,000 cameras worldwide was carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a jewelry store Web site and found that the compromised cameras were able to emulate normal behavior of popular browsers in order to make the botnet more difficult to identify and block. Researchers reported that the attackers could have hacked the devices via a recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in CCTV-Digital Video Recorders (DVRs). Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/06/28/25000-strong-cctv-botnet/ The Internet Of Totally Insecure Things is what’s gonna kill us, not Skynet :-) Note, if each of those 25K cameras can be used to do DDOS, simply watching them is a piece of cake… Wonder how a TL15 society manages the endless Hacker vs Hacker war….this is a gargantuan gap in the Traveller Canon, since it pretty much all predates the internet... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs