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If ISPs blocked internet access to compromised machines until they were clean, as I think they should, people would care a whole lot more about keeping up to da
by jjnoakes 10y ago
If ISPs blocked internet access to compromised machines until they were clean, as I think they should, people would care a whole lot more about keeping up to date.
As it stands now, people don't see the problems they are causing (sending spam, participating in botnets, etc), so of course they don't care.
But they should.
- jlgaddis 10y agoI work for an ISP. I would love to be able to do this. All that would happen, though, is that the customers would loudly complain until either a) we turned them back on or b) they switched to another ISP. We don't even monitor or check for such compromised machines anymore, however (other than my periodic scans for open DNS resolvers, NTP servers, devices with an SNMP community string of "public", and so on).
- runamok 10y agoWe are almost in a world with 1 Terabit ddos attacks from IoT devices. It scares me but ISP level blocking needs to come yesterday... http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/botnet-of-145k-cameras-reportedly-deliver-internets-biggest-ddos-ever/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/botnet-of-145k-camer...