censorship The Internet of Things will host devastating, unstoppable botnets Cory Doctorow

slopcore aesthetic Akamai: 42% percent of web traffic is bots Rob Beschizza

security Assessing the security of devices by measuring how many difficult things the programmers tried to do Cory Doctorow

security An 14-year-old's Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands Cory Doctorow

security A new strain of IoT malware can survive a reboot Cory Doctorow

botnets Graph of best-case/worst-case scenarios for smart home security, by xkcd Mark Frauenfelder

madison avenue Ad networks let you easily and quickly make a botnet Clive Thompson

Boing Boing Gadgets A new IoT botnet called Reaper could be far more virulent than Mirai Cory Doctorow

crime An IoT botnet is trying to nuke Wcry's killswitch Cory Doctorow

security Brickerbot is mysterious antimalware that nukes badly secured Internet of Shit gadgets Cory Doctorow

law British police arrest suspect in last November's me-too Mirai botnet floods Cory Doctorow

Business HP's Nonpology Cory Doctorow

security Two hackers are selling DDoS attacks from 400,000 IoT devices infected with the Mirai worm Cory Doctorow

security Internet of Things botnet threatens to knock the entire country of Liberia offline Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Insecure internet-connected "honeypot" toaster hacked within an hour Rob Beschizza

1201 Internet-destroying outages were caused by "amateurish" IoT malware Cory Doctorow

crime The democratization of censorship: when anyone can kill as site as effectively as a government can Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets IoT malware exploits DVRs, home cameras via default passwords Cory Doctorow

security Google launches Project Shield, to protect news sites from DDoS attacks Cory Doctorow

security Botnets running on CCTVs and NASs Cory Doctorow