How to prevent your IoT devices from being forced into botnet bondage

L33tdawg: On an unrelated note, if you’re in Singapore next week and interested in IoT honeypots, you might want to attend this #HITBGSEC CommSec talk.

A Delaware-headquartered brick-and-mortar jewelry store recently lost access to its online resources after subduing a major, multi-staged DDoS attack — the sort of hack that brings down your server by burdening it with huge amounts of simultaneous requests.