It is one thing to have your network attacked by an outside force. It is quite another to have your network attacked by itself. Herein lies an example of how a university network hacked itself from the outside in by allowing hackers to use IoT-based devices as entry points.
Hackers are increasingly building botnets out of unsecured Internet of Things devices and using them to direct traffic at particular targets in order to overwhelm servers with the aim of taking websites and services offline.
Stephen Veith is founder and lead author/analyst for IoT Sources. Over the course of his career, much of it spent at tech publishing giants CMP and Ziff Davis, he was involved in the creation and establishment of numerous B2B technology information resources.
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