So as I initially suspected that this new buzz of Internet of Things with companies setting up DevOps and equipping their departments, there would soon be a security issue behind this.
Last Friday hack had this IoT behind its hack: Twitter, Spotify and Paypal were affected.
How it worked
The attack was targeted at Dyn a company for helping hi-traffic websites and this affected other companies. The attack came from an IoT device and caused a DDOS attack on Dyn's DNS. This was successfully done using botnets.
I remember studying this at University it was one interesting topic for me. Also heartbleed attack has a relationship with this.
How can this be solved
If you have an idea please share, I'll share mine when I fully understand the IoT environment.
For more information
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/21/someone-attacked-a-major-part-of-the-internets-infrastructure/
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/internet-outage-ddos-dns-dyn/
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