{"id":3514,"date":"2016-09-25T12:32:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2016-09-25T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T16:32:32","slug":"how-hacked-cameras-are-helping-launch-the-biggest-attacks-the-internet-has-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/09\/25\/how-hacked-cameras-are-helping-launch-the-biggest-attacks-the-internet-has-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hacked Cameras Are Helping Launch The Biggest Attacks The Internet Has Ever Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Krebs is a reporter who does stories on cyber attackers that attack for profit.\u00a0 In his line of work, he is often subject to several threats.\u00a0 He has had SWAT teams show up at his house before, and death threats in the form of flowers.\u00a0 Most recently, his website was the subject of a DDoS attack, sending 600-700 gigabits per second of internet traffic.\u00a0 The security company protecting his site, Prolexic, had to stop supporting his website because it was the subject of so many attacks.\u00a0 His site is now back up and running with Google\u2019s Project Shield.\u00a0 It is meant to protect activists from DDoS attacks.\u00a0 Hackers are using unsecured devices from the Internet of Things, (IoTs) to launch this attacks.\u00a0 A botnet of 25,000 CCTV cameras was being used to launch attacks across the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomasbrewster\/2016\/09\/25\/brian-krebs-overwatch-ovh-smashed-by-largest-ddos-attacks-ever\/#14c6c9eb6fb6\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomasbrewster\/2016\/09\/25\/brian-krebs-overwatch-ovh-smashed-by-largest-ddos-attacks-ever\/#14c6c9eb6fb6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Krebs is a reporter who does stories on cyber attackers that attack for profit.\u00a0 In his line of work, he is often subject to several threats.\u00a0 He has had SWAT teams show up at his house before, and death threats in the form of flowers.\u00a0 Most recently, his website was the subject of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715709],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-05it-strategy","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}