Worm Secures Vulnerable IoT Devices

In response to recent malicious botnet attacks that crippled tech giants and a French internet service provider, an engineer released a proof-of-concept of a worm that would automatically change default passwords of insecure IoT devices.

Jamison Utter, VP of Senrio, told SCMagazine.com that the proof-of-concept is “an interesting stopgap solution to the recent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. He said an anti-virus firm could use the approach “in an opt-in manner, rather than as a worm.”

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