You may have heard recently how the popular security blog Krebs on Security was taken offline by a record DDOS attack along with Friday’s major attack on DynDNS.
The reason these attacks are newsworthy is because the attacks are so massive that even the best anti-DDOS systems like Akamai’s could not keep Krebs or DynDNS online. Cloudflare recently posted some visualizations to show how large these types of attacks can be.
The reason these attacks were so powerful was because they were created from a botnet of “Internet of Things” devices that are unsecured by default, also known as the “Internet of Sh...
https://blog.glasswire.com/2016/10/24/the-internet-of-sht-is-finally-here-and-it-sure-does-stink/