Yeah, I’m just saying ISPs that provide 25M, 100M, 1000M connections to the home, especially symmetric ones, will need plans to deal with customers who are maxing out their upstream bandwidth with malicious traffic (probably without knowing it). Sure, you can stream 8K video of your cats to the world from your Google Fiber connection. But if it’s 1 Gbps of DDoS attack traffic, Google is going to have to detect it and stop it at the source. Now one residential customer has the same firepower that previously only an ISP or a server at a datacenter or a government researcher had access to. It’s like giving military surplus rocket launchers to local police, there is going to be misuse, even without bad intent.
From: Josh Reynolds via Af Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 2:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - Mac based botnet Maybe, but those home routers are just as easily exploited and are hard-wired. Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer SPITwSPOTS, 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 Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 9:38 AM To: [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]> 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/
