{"id":394,"date":"2016-10-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2016-10-01T08:21:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:21:59","slug":"repercussions-from-a-1-1-tbsp-ddos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/2016\/10\/07\/repercussions-from-a-1-1-tbsp-ddos\/","title":{"rendered":"Repercussions from a 1.1 Tbsp DDoS"},"content":{"rendered":"
In case you missed it, the largest recorded Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) occurred<\/a>. While under DDoS, a victim’s server (or servers) is under high load and cannot complete all requests that are requested by it. Basically, a DDoS victim is someone the attacker wants silenced on the internet. In order to send a DDoS of that magnitude, the attacker has to have control over many computers – a botnet. It is believed that this attack originated from over 150,000 computers in the IoT category (smart TVs, refrigerators, thermostats, etc.). Due to their poor default security, the IoT devices are easy targets for hackers who intend on adding them to their botnets. A recent article on Ars Technica points out the current issues with IoT and Linux kernel security<\/a>, but with most articles of this nature, provides no clear cut solution to the problem we are experiencing. Below are my thoughts to this current situation and how it may be resolved.<\/p>\n We need a governing body to issue a seal of approval for IoT and anything that is compiled with the Linux kernel. Then we, as consumers, must use, buy, and encourage others to buy from the companies that have this seal. The governing body should ensure each company seeking the seal comply with the following criteria:<\/p>\n For a potential company to get this approval, it may seem like an arduous task to get all the controls in place; however, by applying DevOps methodologies, these tasks can be a simple feat. This would require the governing body to not only enforce the list, but also have the training available to comply to this list. For this reason, I suggest the Linux Foundation to become this governing body and issue out seals of approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In case you missed it, the largest recorded Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) occurred. While under DDoS, a victim’s server (or servers) is under high load and cannot complete all requests that are requested by it. Basically, a DDoS victim is someone the attacker wants silenced on the internet. In order to send a DDoS of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[63,4,52],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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