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Re: IoT security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marco Slater)
Fri Feb 10 08:46:44 2017

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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:48:37 +0000
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> As an ISP, scan your customers netrange, and notify customers with =
known
> vulnerable devices. With regards to the current Mirai threat, theres =
only a
> handful of devices that are the most critical importance. IE, biggest
> fraction of the infected host pie.

Virgin Media in the UK do this for Mirai-infected or susceptible devices =
already.=20

What they send out: https://twitter.com/2sec4u/status/825337376692121601

Quite interesting approach. If more consumers were aware of this, they =
may do something about it.. although.. people are lazy. :(=20=

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