Level 3 Communications said the Mirai botnet has recruited close to 500,000 IoT devices since the malware’s source code was released.

Sierra Wireless warns that its AirLink gateways are being infected by the Mirai malware, and urges customers to change default passwords on devices.

Akamai warns that attackers are compromising IOT devices and using them as proxies to test stolen credentials against web-based applications.

DVR’s, IP-enabled cameras, home cable equipment and many other IOT connected devices are that latest in potent DDoS tools available to attackers.

An attacker known as Anna-senpai released source code for the Mirai malware, which was used in a 620 Gbps DDoS attack against Krebs on Security.

Cisco rolls out a bevy of patches tied to vulnerabilities found in its cloud services platform, IOS software and Prime Home products.

The news of the week is discussed, including Schneier’s DDoS article, a patched IE/Edge zero day, a new OS X malware detection method, and Google’s Project Zero prize.

DNSSEC is not invincible. Researchers this week described how a DNSSEC-based flood attack could easily knock a website offline and allow for the insertion of malware or exfiltration of sensitive data. The intent of Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, is to bolster DNS through a series of complex digital signatures. But if it...

A botnet comprised entirely of internet-enabled closed circuit TV devices used a barrage of HTTP requests to knock a small jewelry store offline for days. Researchers who came across the botnet recently said they weren’t surprised that IoT devices were being used to carry out a distributed denial of service attack but were caught off...

The network time protocol, at the center of a number of high-profile DDoS attacks in 2014, was updated on Thursday to ntp-4.2.8p8. The latest version includes patches for five vulnerabilities, including one rated high-severity. NTP, specifically the NTP daemon, synchronizes system clocks with time servers. Vulnerable NTP servers were used two years ago with regular...