Release of Mirai IoT botnet malware highlights bad password security

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October 4, 2016

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The Mirai botnet malware used in the DDoS attack that took down the site of infosec journalist Brian Krebs was clocked at 620 Gbps. It was released in the Hackforums community website by Anna-senpai, who claims to have authored the code. Vectra CSO Günter Ollmann explains security concerns around Mirai and the dangers of default passwords.

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