Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

["Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder () es net>]

Thus spake Patrick W. Gilmore (patrick () ianai net) on Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 05:57:42PM -0400:
> On Sep 25, 2016, at 5:50 PM, ryan landry <ryan.landry () gmail com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:
>
> > > This is such a golden opportunity for each of you to find compromised
> > > hosts on your network or your customer's network.  The number of
> > > genuine lookups of the blog vs the number of botted machine would
> > > make it almost certain that anything directed at the blog is a
> > > compromised machine.  A phone call to the customer / further analysis
> > > would reduce the false positive rate.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > i wish you luck with that. explaining to grandma that her samsung smart tv
> > has been rooted and needs to be updated should be good fun.
> >
> > for isp's it's a resourcing vs revenue problem. always has been. always
> > will be. far more inclined to hold liable the folks that are churning out
> > terribly dangerous cpe / IoT(shit). surely some regulatory body is looking
> > into this.
>
> Yeah, ‘cause that was so successful in the past.
>
> Remember University of Wisconsin vs. D-Link and their hard-coded NTP server address?

Interestingly, this was just recently looked at again for the Internet of Things 
Software Update Workshop (IoTSU).  See:
        http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/iotsu/IoTSU_2016_paper_25.pdf

3,564 devices still remain.

best,
Dale