DDoS in the IoT: Mirai and Other Botnets
Abstract
The Mirai botnet and its variants and imitators are a woke-up call to the industry to better secure Internet of Things devices or risk exposing the Internet infrastructure to increasingly disruptive distributed denial-of-service attacks.
- Publication:
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Computer
- Pub Date:
- 2017
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2017Compr..50g..80K
- Keywords:
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- Computer crime;
- Servers;
- Malware;
- Ports (Computers);
- Internet;
- IP networks;
- Computer security;
- Risk management;
- Distributed processing;
- Cybertrust;
- security;
- cybersecurity;
- distributed denial of service;
- DDoS;
- Internet of Things;
- IoT;
- botnet;
- Mirai;
- Persirai;
- Hajime;
- BrickerBot