Maybe, but those home routers are just as easily exploited and are
hard-wired.
Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer
SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com <http://www.spitwspots.com>
On 10/05/2014 06:53 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote:
Something I’m not sure ISPs have faced up to, is that home PCs are
starting to have good enough Internet connections to be valuable as
bots. Bad guys used to target those Linux servers partly because they
were at datacenters with lots of upstream bandwidth. But you don’t
need a lot of home PCs on Google Fiber to create a botnet capable of a
formidable DDoS attack. The limiting factor might be home WiFi.
*From:* Paul Stewart via Af <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Sunday, October 05, 2014 9:38 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - Mac based botnet
Yeah probably not even 1% … Mac’s are no more immune than Linux is …
speaking of, I’m amazed by how many linux admin’s don’t keep their
systems patched. That number is hacked linux servers is way way
higher than 1% I would be confident…..
Paul
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Eric Muehleisen
via Af
*Sent:* Sunday, October 05, 2014 10:07 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - Mac based botnet
Who said Macs were immune? 17k is hardly cause for panic. What is
that, less than 1% affected?
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
So much for the belief that Macs are immune to malware.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/reddit-powered-botnet-infected-thousands-of-macs-worldwide/
