Is Deutsche Telekom the Scariest Ever “Hack of Mass Destruction”?
November 2016 will go down in history as a month where the unexpected actually happened. First, the Chicago Cubs, after a 108-year drought, won the World Series. Next, Donald Trump won the U.S....
View ArticleRouterCheck responds to the Deutsche Telekom problem
In light of the recent events involving the compromised routers in the Deutsche Telekom network, RouterCheck will now check for some of the indications that a router may be vulnerable to similar...
View Article100K Brits Knocked Offline as Mirai Problem Continues
The BBC is reporting that 100,00 customers of the British ISPs Talk Talk and Post Office have been knocked offline by an attack on their routers by a modified form of the Mirai worm. This is the same...
View ArticleProblems at British ISP TalkTalk continue
The researcher who discovered that the customer routers of British ISP TalkTalk were under attack has found that the problems didn’t end there. Pen Test Partners’ Ken Munro says that not only were tens...
View ArticleThe TalkTalk Situation Gets Even Worse
The situation with British ISP TalkTalk has become even worse as a variant of the Mirai worm has allowed hackers to create a large botnet from its subscribers’ routers and the ISP’s response has been...
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