This round up includes links to testimony provided by technology professionals in advance of the Congressional Hearing on the security of the Internet of Things (“IoT”) scheduled for November 16, 2016.
Common Background: In October, there was a widespread distributed denial-of-service attack (“DDoS”) that impacted multiple websites such as Pinterest, Reddit, PayPal, and Twitter. The attack leveraged a known exploit and general lack of cybersecurity hygiene in use within the devices commonly referred to as IoT devices to cause the domain name service provider Dyn to go offline which resulted in dozens of websites becoming unreachable as hosts were not able to properly resolve IP address to domain names.
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