The Mirai worm -- first seen attacking security journalist Brian Krebs with 620gbps floods, then taking down Level 3, Dyn and other hardened, well-provisioned internet giants, then spreading to every developed nation on Earth (and being used to take down some of those less-developed nations) despite being revealed as clumsy and amateurish (a situation remedied shortly after by hybridizing it with another IoT worm) -- is now bigger than ever, and you can rent time on it to punish journalists, knock countries offline, or take down chunks of the core internet. (more…)
Popular Posts
-
Looking for something to illustrate a post about crunch-time in game development, I ran into this video depicting many forms of footwear (...
-
There are three Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting penises, each with Unicode characters: 𓂸𓂹 𓂺 Amazingly, no-one seems to know about them des...
-
You might not know this, but the editors of Wikipedia maintain an automated list of all the world's cookies. The have everything from ...
-
While every incident that causes damage to an airplane is different, especially ones where passengers, crew, or third parties are injured o...
-
TIL: Actor and comedian Ken Jeong is also a licensed physician . He put his career in medicine on hold to become an actor. Mind you, this ...
-
The Cube Two X is a 377-square foot pre-fabricated tiny smart home from Singaporean company Nestron. And it absolutely looks like somet...
-
Paul Manafort speaking to the court today, courtroom sketch artist: Art Lien A judge sentenced former Donald Trump presidential campaign ma...
-
The cost of lomustine, a veteran cancer drug, have skyrocketed after a startup bought the rights to it and hiked prices 1,400 percent. Ac...
-
Can't agree with your partner on a road trip playlist? Let Spotify curate your music based on both of your listening habits . " ...
-
This one squeaked past the list of prohibited personalized license plates . [ via ]
