Fridge sending spam
2014-01-17 19:53:56.153162+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Yeah, you've seen all of that stuff about exploited refrigerators sending SPAM. Here's the original press release: http://investors.proofpoint.co...leasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=819799
I recently saw a situation where a very popular DSL modem was accepting NTP reflection attacks on the outside port. Your DSL uplink was being used for DDOS attacks, and no one was the wiser unless you called your ISP to figure out why your HTTP requests were having trouble getting through.
The Internet of Things is in for some serious growing pains.
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