The 10/21/2016 Chinese DDOS

[foxy]

Surprised no one inquired about this. Do you think it really was an error or a warning about our vulnerability?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/31340...os-attack.html

[Train]

weak default passwords in its products were partly to blame.

That always is a problem. Why I change them.

[jdc2000]

More links:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/history...s-of-the-past/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-dyn...t-ddos-attack/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/iot-dev...n-researchers/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/iot-mob...ritical-flaws/

[HAN]

Many Internet of Things devices (like those mentioned in the story) are cheap and were/are not designed with much security. Add buyers who just plug the IOT stuff in and run it on their core, home networks... You have a recipe for problems. Based on everything I know of this, we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg. It's not going to get better for quite some time!