“Those damned Republicans won’t give us a budget to fight cybercrime.”
Cost of connecting equipment...
Priceless!
They’re kinda late to the cyber-security party, what with practically everything except bookcases being internet-connected for years now.
Bring everything under tight government control ?
In all these stories, I’ve only seen reports about the equipment made by the Chicom company, but nothing about other equipment that contains that Chicom motherboard. With every equipment maker buying parts from everyone else, a list of affected equipment would be nice.
We just need to wipe those botnet hacked cameras and such with a cloth and it’ll all be fine!
I’m pretty sure my refrigerator is watching me.
I would say it is 100% bad. The government has no regulatory authority over an IP camera in Romania that is attack a DNS server here, nor should they. It would be even worse to give them more authority over ISPs here since those ISPs would limit your choices "for the greater good" (translation: $$ for them).
The solution to this rather trivial problem is multifold. More DNS caching (yes that has problems but is a llifesaver during the short span of attack). Better attack recognition so it can be responded to quickly. Service providers need to eliminate their use of DNS, that is a no-brainer. There is no reason any service should have gone down.
The immediate solution is to shorten the duration of the attack which could make a nonevent. The ultimate solution is internet architectures that don't need DNS lookups. There are many and of course Google and Facebook and other powerhouses will come up with some so they can continue getting your eyeballs and their revenue. The worst thing is to have the government, Google, Facebook and others dictate some "solution" or the giving the domestic ISPs more power.