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Originally Posted by Top Shelf
Heard from some old Shaw friends that they believe it to be DDOS attack
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Distributed Denial of Shaw?
Read an interesting article a few days ago about a hacker who was hacking IoT devices (webcams etc), but instead of using them to power botnets to do DDOS attacks, was hacking them to either patch them if he could, or if he couldn't he would actually brick the device. Had a big network of his own doing it.
Which is both awesome and bad, but really it's on device manufacturers to stop putting out products with bad security. I think it should actually be illegal, I mean there's laws against making food with packaging that would allow food to be infected before it gets sold, make it so companies have to remove default passwords and have a decent level of effort put into making and keeping the devices secure (because people aren't going to do it for damn sure).