Last October's IoT Hack: No Black Swan
Contemporary wireless protocols and legacy systems weren't meant to coexist.
Security breaches these days have become commonplaceβalmost daily occurrences. It's a lamentable sign of the times. Still, even by today's ho-hum standards, one in October of last year proved particularly worrisome.
As far as we know, hackers accessed traditionally less secure devices to cause massive outages. The culprits: DVRs and CCTV video cameras. It didn't take long before hundreds of millions of people could not access key accounts on sites that included Twitter, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit, Spotify, and Netflix.
Here's a heatmap outlining the attacks:
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