IoT is just wave after wave of unsecure devices. There's gotta be a better way.
Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
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#12Is this Aisuru growing? How can it be dismantled?
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#13IoT is just wave after wave of unsecure devices. There's gotta be a better way.
The "S" in IoT stands for "security".
Re: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses
#14Is this Aisuru growing? How can it be dismantled?
Yes.
Only way is to secure your IoT devices/routers/cameras/etc.
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#15/sarcasm
Another ai crawler...
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#16I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.
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#17We should make residential proxies illegal
We really shouldn’t - this seems like perhaps one of the worst ideas one could propose in an era of rising authoritarian rule. Seems like a bad time to be putting silly restrictions on how folks route their traffic.
Tinfoil hat says it’s the gov’t doing it for those reasons /s
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#18> it suddenly ballooned in size in April 2025 after its operators breached a TotoLink router firmware update server and infected approximately 100,000 devices
This is scary. Everyone lauds open source projects like OpenWRT but... who is watching their servers?
I imagine you can't run an army of security people on donations and a shoestring budget. Does OpenWRT use digital signing to mitigate this?
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#19I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.
I mean, America can’t do anything about scam phone calls aimed at seniors who forge caller ID of local hospitals.
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#20I will never understand why there isn’t an international law enforcement agency with teeth, which can get rid of the bad actors.
How would you even enforce this if the offending country doesn't agree?