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Internet users across the eastern seaboard found their connections interrupted Oct. 21 during a massive cyberattack. The attack was in part fueled by Mirai, a virus that gives hackers access to unsecured webcams and similar devices. (The hackers commandeer the devices and use them to send bogus traffic to a target server in hopes of overloading it and knocking it down.)
How can you tell if your gadgets are infected with Mirai? A good place to start is this list compiled by security researcher Brian Krebs, who analyzed Mirai’s publicly available source code to see which devices it’s been targeting.
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Krebs warns this may be an incomplete list. “Unfortunately, there is no simple way to tell one way or the other whether [a device] has been compromised,” he says.
The safest approach may be to assume your webcams, printers and other Internet-connected devices are vulnerable and proceed accordingly: Reset your devices, change their passwords, and download any security updates issued by their manufacturer. Exactly how to do that differs for every gadget, but a quick Google search along the lines of “security update Panasonic Printer” should be fruitful.
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