IoT: Well, that escalated quickly

[El_Heffe]

An unnamed university experienced a major DDOS attack from it's own vending machines, light bulbs and other IoT devices. Firewall logs identified over 5,000 discrete systems making hundreds of DNS lookups to seafood-related domains every 15 minutes.

Of these, nearly all systems were found to be living on the segment of the network dedicated to our IoT infrastructure. Everything from light bulbs to vending machines had been connected to the network for ease of management and improved efficiencies.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3168763/security/university-attacked-by-its-own-vending-machines-smart-light-bulbs-and-5-000-iot-devices.html

mmmmmmm . . . . seafood
http://i.imgur.com/kb4wwd7.jpg

[RaceProUK]

http://cdn.legalseafoods.com/images/uploads/category_116_5032.png

[dkf]

Prawn attack!

[asdf]

@RaceProUK
Aaaaaand now I want to have that, but the steak house closed last year and I'm not sure a 100€ dinner is a good idea.

You monster!

[The_Quiet_One]

I think Randall Munroe should revise his article about the Robot Apocalypse. https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/

[Gąska]

@The_Quiet_One if 4chan didn't cause apocalypse, neither will IoT. Not with DDOS anyway.