[kictanet] Africa ICT Summit to Discuss How IoT will advance Afrca's Develop0ment

[Brian Muhia]

Sorry, that should be 150,000 hacked IoT devices. Source:
https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/09/27/2042246/ovh-hosting-suffers-from-record-1tbps-ddos-attack-driven-by-150k-devices

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 10:16 AM Brian Muhia <bmn at savannahinformatics.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the update, Waudo. I really hope people are discussing the
> technical challenges for ensuring security in IoT devices, seeing as the
> number of devastating denial-of-service attacks is increasing because of
> unsecured devices. The biggest such DDoS attack to date, clocking in at
> 1Tbps, was used against an ISP called OVH. The source of this data was a
> set of 15,000 hacked IoT devices. This problem is only going to get worse
> the more IoT hype there is, since most companies will only spend the
> minimum to get their product out. What to do here?
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 8:22 AM waudo siganga via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>
>
> http://smartworldngr.com/2016/10/03/aficta-2016-summit-to-discuss-how-iot-will-advance-africas-development
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