Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks and IoT Security

Technical Report from the year 2017 in the subject Computer Science - IT-Security, grade: N/A, University of Technology, Sydney, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this report investigates the present state of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It highlights the current security issues of using IoT devices, and discusses its possible solutions to maximise security and minimise DDoS and cyberattacks. The measures that needs to be considered to prevent attacks on IoT devices from Mirai botnet has been highlighted, which include the use of cloudflare¿s orbit and other general security practices. Cloudflare¿s orbit allows manufactures to implement virtual patchs for vulnerabilities found in IoT devices until those vulnerabilities are fixed through software updates.