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Originally Posted by Golf1echo
It is my understanding that the DOS attacks involve the internet of things....thermostats, refrigerators, controllers, etc... they all had basic security codes when they left the factories like 12345 and end users either never changed them or didn't know how nor understand the importance of changing those passwords. Not long ago programs to access and collect that data were released to the dark web ( something not uncommon when the originators want to obfuscate it's origin ).
Is it just me or does this seem like a self-fulfilling prophesy? I can't understand why appliances and controllers would share the same space as business and government operations. If these guys are so smart, maybe Al Gore can invent another internet for their use....oh but wait that would interfere with the fafillion dollar industry of guarding for and correcting these attacks. Some days it seems like the technologists are racing hell bent into the future only as they go by we get caught and drug along with them. Self driving cars, people living on Mars, flying ubers and drones......we can't even get air bags right or replace the ones we know are faulty. I'm not against good ideas and moving into the future but how about some real world perspective...when will that occur? Shaking my head at so many things these days.
I'll juxtapose this with a story I read not long ago. It was about how the Germans had cut off the Allies ability to resupply Africa by sinking several ships in straights as Germany poured into the African campaign. Here in this country we specially built a strong tug boat and sent her and her crew all in record time over to those African straights to remove those sunken ships and allow for the logistics to flow to the Allies and we know how Africa worked out for the Germans. My point is, I don't believe we have the capability to do that today. we need a balance of manufacturing and tech, tech on it's own isn't meant to build anything.
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Yes.. but those appliances were used as apart of the Botnet. All of our appliances today have computers in them. Well anything that is digitally made today.
http://thehackernews.com/2014/01/100...ther-home.html