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Pervasive IoT device deployment without in-the-wild security considerations and rapid updates is likely to add to DDoS bot farms.
by everdayimhustln 9y ago
Pervasive IoT device deployment without in-the-wild security considerations and rapid updates is likely to add to DDoS bot farms.
- hellbanner 9y agoYou're a little late - the Mirai botnet (Larget botnet at the time it became widely known) is exactly that. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-mirai-worm-author/#more-37412 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-m...
- sillysaurus3 9y agoThat story - Wow! Did anything ever happen to the author? Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435742 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428824 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428824 Supposed Reddit comment from the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5nqq3c/serious_people_whove_written_malicious_code/dce7rh9/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5nqq3c/serious_p...
- hellbanner 9y agoTheir last post is Jul 17, but there's signature and even if there was, how would we ever know.
- samstave 9y agoIve always wondered if "anna senpai" is a play on "ono sendai" -- the infamous Cyberpunk EvilCorp deck... I personally feel that it is. (maybe tis was already obvious to others - I just havent talked about it out oud to anyone prior...)
- krallja 9y agoI think the pseudonym "Anna senpai" is in reference to the Japanese media trope of schoolchildren falling in love with their senpai.
- samstave 9y ago<Wipes hands with oily rag, looking at motor...> Well,now... there's my problem right there... Jus' don' know much 'bout them japanese now doncha. <rocks back and forth with thumbs on the straps of my filthy coveralls, spits...> Yep yep yep is what I always say... <heads back into dilapidated datacenter behind squeaky screen door only holding on by one hinge>
- hellbanner 9y agoThey said in an interview -- it's a .txt file linked somewhere on the krebs site, that AS is a villian in an anime
- jMyles 9y agoSo? Every single thread of this nature has a similar comment, and I really want to know (ie, I want to hear this fully fleshed out because I think your concerns are valid and worth exploring): is this demonstrative of a new (or in some way more valid) notion of the word "hacker" in "hacker news?" My sense of that word, and of the culture that underlying it, is that a critical part of its critique is that obscurity, specifically in its implications for security (and thus, perhaps civility and peace and justice), is subject to deprecation in the information age, precisely in favor of styles of disclosure like this: where the pudding for the tasting is provided as the proof. Have I missed something very important?
- minitech 9y agoWhat? If there’s a question there, could you ask it in a straightforward manner, please?
- jMyles 9y agoOK, I'll try. :-) Are there good reasons to believe that obscurity (ie, keeping secret the means and methods of attack) is likely to be a viable defense in favor of civility and justice in the age to come?