Prof. Anupam Joshi comments on recent DDoS attack on MPT show

CSEE Prof. Anupam Joshi was interviewed on MPT’s Direct Connection about the recent massive distributed denial of service attack that was launched from a botnet from compromised IoT devices. The attack disrupted access to many popular Internet sites, including Twitter, Netflix, Amazon and PayPal. Dr. Joshi discussed the mechanism that used and what can be done to reduce the risks of similar attacks. He also pointed out that Mirai, the name of one of the software systems used by the attackers, is a Japanese word that means “future” and that this may be a harbinger of things to come.