Ed Sperling and Jeff Dorsch of Semiconductor Engineering recently penned an article about the future of IoT security. Specifically, the two journalists highlighted the distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against Dyn which saw waves of attacks created by Mirai malware.
“Connected devices of all sizes can [now] be amassed into an army of bots that can bring even giants like Amazon and Netflix to a dead stop,” they explained. “This attack was predicted and warned against by numerous security experts since [Mirai] was published as open source code several months earlier, but that did little to stop its progression.”