IoT Scanner
Posted: 23 Oct 2016, 11:51
Last Friday was history making when many of the Internet's big time web sites went down to a hacker. The attack was fairly crude but involved the use of a network of robotic ... things. Few computers were hijacked, but millions of cameras, refrigerator, and other Internet connected devices that are not PC's or mobile devices ganged up on a critical Internet service manager to shut down Internet access in bulk. These "things" many of us have are convenience gizmos which are connected to the Internet to do what they do best - it all happens on the Internet Of Things (IoT). The reason it was able to happen is because few if any of these devices have any security whatsoever built into them. They are wide open for use by anyone who knows how to get into them. More frightening is that the code used to hijack the IoT devices has been released to the public. Now, anybody and their brother can do it.
The best defense us common device users have is to use whatever software was supplied by the "things" we own and change the default login credentials for your gizmo. If you don't know whether or not you have a vulnerable device that can be recruited into a bot-net without your knowledge, then you can use the link provided below to check. While most of the outages were in the USA, some of western Europe was affected as well. Doing this check isn't going to stop the problem, but at lease you won't be contributing to it ... for the time being.
WHAT HAPPENED: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/twitt ... net-attack
WAS IT YOU?: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_au/read/ ... e-internet
Iot SCAN: http://iotscanner.bullguard.com/
The best defense us common device users have is to use whatever software was supplied by the "things" we own and change the default login credentials for your gizmo. If you don't know whether or not you have a vulnerable device that can be recruited into a bot-net without your knowledge, then you can use the link provided below to check. While most of the outages were in the USA, some of western Europe was affected as well. Doing this check isn't going to stop the problem, but at lease you won't be contributing to it ... for the time being.
WHAT HAPPENED: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/twitt ... net-attack
WAS IT YOU?: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_au/read/ ... e-internet
Iot SCAN: http://iotscanner.bullguard.com/