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Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by termain@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] tjr@mbin.xi.ht 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

the sad thing is this is just routers, think about all of the IoT devices that are compromised due to vendors not caring about patching security issues, just worrying about selling IoT.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

insecam.org for a quick demo of insecure devices

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 4 points 10 months ago

Shodan also has a lot of fun searches.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Or having non existent security