Security News > 2017 > February > IoT Attack Against a University Network (Schneier on Security)
2017-02-17 14:30
Verizon's Data Brief Digest 2017 describes an attack against an unnamed university by attackers who hacked a variety of IoT devices and had them spam network targets and slow them down: Analysis of the university firewall identified over 5,000 devices making hundreds of Domain Name Service (DNS) look-ups every 15 minutes, slowing the institution's entire network and restricting access to...
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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/02/iot_attack_agai.html
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