papuans behind bars UK's oldest ISP blames DoS attack on attempt to suppress human rights report about West Papua (read it now!) Cory Doctorow
asymmetrical warfare Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests Cory Doctorow
remote access trojans Zoom has slow-walked a fix for a bug that allows randos to take over your Mac's camera Cory Doctorow
memcached The latest "reflection attack" gooses Denial of Service attacks by a factor of 51,000 Cory Doctorow
2-20 kH Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-centers, and other computing environments Cory Doctorow
mirai Mirai's creators plead guilty, reveal that they created a DDoS superweapon to get a competitive edge in the Minecraft server industry Cory Doctorow
botnet eschatology A new IoT botnet called Reaper could be far more virulent than Mirai Cory Doctorow
your peanut butter got in my chocolate An IoT botnet is trying to nuke Wcry's killswitch Cory Doctorow
crapgadgets Not just crapgadgets: Sony's enterprise CCTV can be easily hacked by IoT worms like Mirai Cory Doctorow
distributed denial of service DDoS attack on Finnish automated buildings disabled heating controls Andrea James
democratization of cyberwar Two hackers are selling DDoS attacks from 400,000 IoT devices infected with the Mirai worm Cory Doctorow
shadows kill Internet of Things botnet threatens to knock the entire country of Liberia offline Cory Doctorow
the brave little toaster Internet-destroying outages were caused by "amateurish" IoT malware Cory Doctorow
mirai The clumsy, amateurish IoT botnet has now infected devices in virtually all of the world's countries Cory Doctorow
