University couldn't figure out why network was slow... turns out it was being attacked by its own vending machines 😬 networkworld.com/article/316…
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The most beautiful part of this is that the vending machines were making thousands of "seafood related DNS queries"

Feb 13, 2017 · 12:04 PM UTC

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Internet of 🐋🦈🐬
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I need the seafood part not to be random really badly. I want the fact it ordered seafood to be critical to the exploit.
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Trying to bypass the Squid proxy?
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Something fishy was going on.
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The usual student searches... hardcore prawn, PrawnHub, interracial prawn, you name it...
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. @internetofshit Don't you just love student humour? 😈
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- "so... hungry..."
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sounds like some playful security researcher at the uni decided to illustrate the dangers of IoT and phishing.
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Seafood vending machines?
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"So long, and thanks for all the fish!"
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