>>>> ddos attack like against Dyn >> I could be wrong, but I believe that Dyn was DDoSed by the Mirai botnet, >> which propagates by exploiting devices configured with default credentials. >> This has nothing to do with outdated firmwares.
> The problem is that you cannot realistically update those firmwares. Philip -- please read my mail again. The Dyn attack has nothing to do with out-of-date firmwares. I cannot stress this enough: out-of-date firmwares are the least of our problems at this stage. We're being attacked by devices that ship with a well-known default password, and in some cases by devices that ship with a well-known backdoor that's impossible to disable: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40397.html -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
