Mobility Platform Company to Hold Live Facebook Event on IoS Security

Mobility platform company Aerohive plans a live video event on its Facebook page Thursday at 12:30 p.m. EDT to answer questions on how companies can protect their networks in the IoT age. The recent attack on DynDNS (see 1610210056), which caused massive website outages for Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and others, was attributed in part to a bot that scours the web for IoT devices such as video cameras that were protected by factory-default usernames and passwords, which the bot then used to attack online targets, said Aerohive. The attack was widely successful because many people were using default admin credentials and outdated firmware, said the company. Aerohive panelists will discuss tools available to prevent similar attacks.