16 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  2. ‘The first, and worst, attack was resolved by 9:20 a.m. EDT on Oct. 22, but disruptions continued throughout the day. Twitter, for example, was still experiencing outages at 4 p.m’
    Impressive work c/w precognitive ability.

  3. If you buy a refrigerator because it connects to the internet to report on your groceries I don’t mind if someone hacks into it and somehow inflicts some kind of food poisoning upon you.

  4. Always blame the Russians ?
    That is stupid, the Russians have as much to lose as we do over a down internet.
    The North Korean bots are causing this, they have nothing to lose if your internet stays down.
    Their economy tanked years ago and the place is total blackness after dark thirty.
    Hack and destroy the NORKS ability to use the internet and watch what happens.
    Oh… Wait… Present Obathroom wants to give the internet away.
    Purple Moron.

  6. Silver lining anyone? If this was a prelude to something bigger on US election day, and the US election is disrupted because of it’s reliance on online voting and counting, that will be a huge warning shot across the bow of the people who want to bring eVoting to Canada.
    Paper, pencil, taped box, dump them out at the end of the night, DRO and scrutineers count and verify, phone the results into Elections Canada and local riding HQ. QED…should not be altered in any way.

  7. Exactly. People need to be held responsible for what their devices are doing when connected to the internet. If you can’t control your fridge perhaps you should leave it off the internet.

  9. But what will people do when their fridge can no longer send them a reminder to stuff their face?

  10. Twitter was down? Not seeing a down side here. I live in the are of that map shown as being under attack and didn’t have a problem.

  11. So, what do we do about it?
    My worry is that the internet is the last stronghold of the “conservative spring”.
    Think how it aids both the Dems AND their media sycophants to see the internet become either controlled, unsecured or blocked entirely. It fit entirely within his agenda to see Obama not hesitate to throw this medium’s stewardship to the winds.

  12. You will soon have no choice but to purchase a refrigerator that is controlled by a scale that weighs the user prior to dispensing the correct number of calories based upon calculated BMI. The Obamakare Board of Healthy Citizens will provide all the programming software for the state-controlled ice box. The programming will include an override for Politbureau Elites who require Waygu beef for their gluten-free diets. “Let their crispers dispense kale” … will be the cause of the next Revolution.
    And after your State imposed self-control refrigerator causes early death from malnutrition, your frail corpse will be whisked-away to the Soylent Green Factory in a self-driving hearse.
    Behold the Brave New World of Zucker Burg.

  13. This is the first time someone used the IoT for a DDNS attack but a few years ago a group of hackers wrote an extremely well behaved worm which was used to map out the internet in very fine detail. It relied on most IoT devices still having default passwords and would initially size up a system to see if it had enough memory to hold the worm and, if it did, would load itself and start looking for local neighbors. Once it had the data it would upload it and wipe itself from the machine it had infected. No Russian plot here – likely someone else remembered this little hack and modified it. Somewhat telling that Assange asked people to leave the internet alone now that they had made their point.
    Having had lots of processors monitoring stuff in my house for years, I have 2 networks: the first is my regular machines that are connected to internet and have good security. The local network is open but can’t be accessed from the internet. It hosts surveillance cameras and various microprocessor read sensors that I’ve put together over the years and access to it would require hacking into one of my machines to get onto local network. Every time I’ve put an IoT type machine on internet, it’s been locked down rather heavily. Spark put out a neat little WiFi enabled ARM prcessor on a chip and was planning to use it for monitoring around the house as could access it through my cellphone but all accesses went through Spark’s secure server which was nice when I was out of the house but hacking the firmware to allow it to connect to my local hidden network is a future project.
    Based on years of monitoring intrusions into my machines, by far the largest source is Chicom IP addresses and have blocked most of those IP ranges from accessing my ftp and mailservers which has dramatically cut down on attacks. Russian malware seems to mainly be various online Rx drug sites although it appears that the various “online pharmacies” have moved most of their spam to botnets and have been getting a lot of spam from ME countries and Spamhaus has these IP addresses flagged as infected by one of the various virii that belong to a botnet.
    Being paranoid, I want to make absolutely sure I know what each computer I own is doing. It strikes me as absurd that people would buy TV’s and refrigerators which have capability to connect to internet and hook it up without a second thought. Some years back Google would index Panasonic webcams and it was easy to find them with a simple search. None of the ones I found had a password and people had them setup in their living rooms or other rooms in their houses seemingly totally oblivious that they had just allowed the whole world to watch what they were doing. Those were the boring camera but the most interesting ones were monitoring various factories or scenic views. I have a few of those cameras and they are well built machines with mine all still working after 10 years of daily use. I only had one that looked out of my apartment window when I lived in Vancouver hooked up to internet.

  15. What’s needed is more local network connectivity. The current internet model is vulnerable because all traffic is funneled through a number of chokepoints where the NSA has free reign to vacuum up all packets passing through. There are lots of open source networks and old routers can be repurposed to create self-configuring mesh networks which can be used to restore communications in areas where phone service and regular internet is out (just need to supply power). This is all open source software but hang onto your old routers as the FCC now considers router software to be same as hardware and hacking a new, locked-down, router will make one run afoul of the DMCA in the US. Yet another reason to use open-source products only.
    The nice thing about private networks is that they’re a lot more difficult to snoop on and it’s time to start creating alternative networks in communities to allow basic communication if the whole internet goes down. Won’t stream HDMI quality video but the only high bandwidth uses I make of the internet are to download huge bits of Linux software and large data files (human genone at a couple of Gb now seems relatively small).

  16. The article says Russia trough wikileaks is trying to ” influence the USA election”
    I did not know exposing all the cheating the democrats do in the hope the democrats will do much less cheating was considered “influencing elections”
    well that is how democrats see it of course, anyone keeping them from stealing an election is ” influencing the election ”

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