censorship UK's oldest ISP blames DoS attack on attempt to suppress human rights report about West Papua (read it now!) Cory Doctorow
Games Gamers propose punishing Blizzard for its anti-Hong Kong partisanship by flooding it with GDPR requests Cory Doctorow
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security Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-centers, and other computing environments Cory Doctorow
Games Mirai's creators plead guilty, reveal that they created a DDoS superweapon to get a competitive edge in the Minecraft server industry Cory Doctorow
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security Not just crapgadgets: Sony's enterprise CCTV can be easily hacked by IoT worms like Mirai 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
security The clumsy, amateurish IoT botnet has now infected devices in virtually all of the world's countries Cory Doctorow
computer science The malware that's pwning the Internet of Things is terrifyingly amateurish Cory Doctorow
