What Are You Doing Right Now
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What? the attack is back ?
ug.From how my online interactions were acting over the weekend, it never went away.
I was on Neflix and FB only this weekend... Netflix has a few dropouts.. I thought nothing of it... but now considering this... It might have been related.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What? the attack is back ?
ug.From how my online interactions were acting over the weekend, it never went away.
I was on Neflix and FB only this weekend... Netflix has a few dropouts.. I thought nothing of it... but now considering this... It might have been related.
Netflix actually did that thing where it just gives up loading what your trying to watch, the only time I've seen that was when the local ISP was down.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What? the attack is back ?
ug.From how my online interactions were acting over the weekend, it never went away.
I was on Neflix and FB only this weekend... Netflix has a few dropouts.. I thought nothing of it... but now considering this... It might have been related.
Netflix actually did that thing where it just gives up loading what your trying to watch, the only time I've seen that was when the local ISP was down.
Yeah that happened to me twice, but simply refreshing the page brought it back. The image quality was crap for a while after that too, but cleared up in under 5 mins.
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8 AM CDT
Level 3 Outage
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It will be interesting to watch this in roughly 15 min increments.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What? the attack is back ?
ug.From how my online interactions were acting over the weekend, it never went away.
I was on Neflix and FB only this weekend... Netflix has a few dropouts.. I thought nothing of it... but now considering this... It might have been related.
Netflix actually did that thing where it just gives up loading what your trying to watch, the only time I've seen that was when the local ISP was down.
Yeah that happened to me twice, but simply refreshing the page brought it back. The image quality was crap for a while after that too, but cleared up in under 5 mins.
I've been keeping an eye peeled on our outgoing traffic at home and work. I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network (hardwired as much as possible.) So I can almost guarantee one of those would be vulnerable. I didn't notice anything, but Steam updates were happening, so ~100GB of data moved across our connection in 72 hours. The size of games anymore, geesh.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What? the attack is back ?
ug.From how my online interactions were acting over the weekend, it never went away.
I was on Neflix and FB only this weekend... Netflix has a few dropouts.. I thought nothing of it... but now considering this... It might have been related.
Netflix actually did that thing where it just gives up loading what your trying to watch, the only time I've seen that was when the local ISP was down.
Yeah that happened to me twice, but simply refreshing the page brought it back. The image quality was crap for a while after that too, but cleared up in under 5 mins.
I've been keeping an eye peeled on our outgoing traffic at home and work. I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network (hardwired as much as possible.) So I can almost guarantee one of those would be vulnerable. I didn't notice anything, but Steam updates were happening, so ~100GB of data moved across our connection in 72 hours. The size of games anymore, geesh.
Sure, but most of that should have been inbound. I suppose playing a game could send a sizable amount out.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What? the attack is back ?
ug.From how my online interactions were acting over the weekend, it never went away.
I was on Neflix and FB only this weekend... Netflix has a few dropouts.. I thought nothing of it... but now considering this... It might have been related.
Netflix actually did that thing where it just gives up loading what your trying to watch, the only time I've seen that was when the local ISP was down.
Yeah that happened to me twice, but simply refreshing the page brought it back. The image quality was crap for a while after that too, but cleared up in under 5 mins.
I've been keeping an eye peeled on our outgoing traffic at home and work. I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network (hardwired as much as possible.) So I can almost guarantee one of those would be vulnerable. I didn't notice anything, but Steam updates were happening, so ~100GB of data moved across our connection in 72 hours. The size of games anymore, geesh.
Sure, but most of that should have been inbound. I suppose playing a game could send a sizable amount out.
heh, I was trying to play World of Warships for a bit, I actually had some terrible lag for the first time I can remember. The game client was giving me an average of 400ms when it's normally less than 70ms.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
I'm a bit confused - While I agree that these things might all have security flaws in them, I'm not sure how one would exploit them short of you installing a hacked update, and assuming you're behind a firewall.
As I understand it, the IoT things that are being taken control of either a) are put directly on the internet with no firewall (crazy!) or b) have a port opened on the firewall for remote access/control of those devices and they've been hacked.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
I'm a bit confused - While I agree that these things might all have security flaws in them, I'm not sure how one would exploit them short of you installing a hacked update, and assuming you're behind a firewall.
As I understand it, the IoT things that are being taken control of either a) are put directly on the internet with no firewall (crazy!) or b) have a port opened on the firewall for remote access/control of those devices and they've been hacked.
As part of b) they could be using UPNP or something to tell the router "Make me available to the world!"
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About to boot off to a Mint Live USB.
Getting quite irritated with Windows 10 on my home PC.Get stuffed Skype. You and your random spawning. If I wanted to load you, I'd jolly well click on you.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
I'm a bit confused - While I agree that these things might all have security flaws in them, I'm not sure how one would exploit them short of you installing a hacked update, and assuming you're behind a firewall.
As I understand it, the IoT things that are being taken control of either a) are put directly on the internet with no firewall (crazy!) or b) have a port opened on the firewall for remote access/control of those devices and they've been hacked.
As part of b) they could be using UPNP or something to tell the router "Make me available to the world!"
Oh yeah - Of course.. duh me.
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Emilia woke up once an hour last night... going to be a long day.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
I'm a bit confused - While I agree that these things might all have security flaws in them, I'm not sure how one would exploit them short of you installing a hacked update, and assuming you're behind a firewall.
As I understand it, the IoT things that are being taken control of either a) are put directly on the internet with no firewall (crazy!) or b) have a port opened on the firewall for remote access/control of those devices and they've been hacked.
As part of b) they could be using UPNP or something to tell the router "Make me available to the world!"
But I'm guessing that @travisdh1 is probably not using a UPNP enabled router, but then again, maybe he is.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
I'm a bit confused - While I agree that these things might all have security flaws in them, I'm not sure how one would exploit them short of you installing a hacked update, and assuming you're behind a firewall.
As I understand it, the IoT things that are being taken control of either a) are put directly on the internet with no firewall (crazy!) or b) have a port opened on the firewall for remote access/control of those devices and they've been hacked.
As part of b) they could be using UPNP or something to tell the router "Make me available to the world!"
But I'm guessing that @travisdh1 is probably not using a UPNP enabled router, but then again, maybe he is.
Oh, at home, it is enabled. Much as I don't like it, trying to manage all the different ports for all the games we play would take way to much time. Monitoring traffic is easier and takes less time than trying to figure out which ports need opened to which games. (Yeah, my home is much more open to being hacked than any other network I touch. That's one reason I use vultr to host my lab stuff.)
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
I'm a bit confused - While I agree that these things might all have security flaws in them, I'm not sure how one would exploit them short of you installing a hacked update, and assuming you're behind a firewall.
As I understand it, the IoT things that are being taken control of either a) are put directly on the internet with no firewall (crazy!) or b) have a port opened on the firewall for remote access/control of those devices and they've been hacked.
As part of b) they could be using UPNP or something to tell the router "Make me available to the world!"
But I'm guessing that @travisdh1 is probably not using a UPNP enabled router, but then again, maybe he is.
Oh, at home, it is enabled. Much as I don't like it, trying to manage all the different ports for all the games we play would take way to much time. Monitoring traffic is easier and takes less time than trying to figure out which ports need opened to which games. (Yeah, my home is much more open to being hacked than any other network I touch. That's one reason I use vultr to host my lab stuff.)
oh - hmm.. interesting. Yeah I turn that shit off and just deal with ports as needed.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
Which Harmony do you have? Mine doesn't connect to the network. I connect it to my computer to update it, and even then I don't think the remote ever talks to the internet.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
Which Harmony do you have? Mine doesn't connect to the network. I connect it to my computer to update it, and even then I don't think the remote ever talks to the internet.
I think it's the Home Connect. It's one that lets you control everything with an Android/iOS app. So it really does need to be connected to the local network in order to function. When making changes to setting on it, I generally make the changes on the computer and then push them out with the phone, no having to plug the base unit into the computer that way.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
I'm a bit confused - While I agree that these things might all have security flaws in them, I'm not sure how one would exploit them short of you installing a hacked update, and assuming you're behind a firewall.
As I understand it, the IoT things that are being taken control of either a) are put directly on the internet with no firewall (crazy!) or b) have a port opened on the firewall for remote access/control of those devices and they've been hacked.
As part of b) they could be using UPNP or something to tell the router "Make me available to the world!"
But I'm guessing that @travisdh1 is probably not using a UPNP enabled router, but then again, maybe he is.
Oh, at home, it is enabled. Much as I don't like it, trying to manage all the different ports for all the games we play would take way to much time. Monitoring traffic is easier and takes less time than trying to figure out which ports need opened to which games. (Yeah, my home is much more open to being hacked than any other network I touch. That's one reason I use vultr to host my lab stuff.)
oh - hmm.. interesting. Yeah I turn that shit off and just deal with ports as needed.
If you ask me, I highly recommend it be turned off. I keep the 2nd monitor displaying the active connections that the router is making, but most people don't even know how to get that information, let alone figure out when connections to something bad are being made.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I watch Netflix from a BlueRay player, have the TV, Reciever, and Harmony remotes all hooked up to the network
I'm a bit confused - While I agree that these things might all have security flaws in them, I'm not sure how one would exploit them short of you installing a hacked update, and assuming you're behind a firewall.
As I understand it, the IoT things that are being taken control of either a) are put directly on the internet with no firewall (crazy!) or b) have a port opened on the firewall for remote access/control of those devices and they've been hacked.
As part of b) they could be using UPNP or something to tell the router "Make me available to the world!"
But I'm guessing that @travisdh1 is probably not using a UPNP enabled router, but then again, maybe he is.
Oh, at home, it is enabled. Much as I don't like it, trying to manage all the different ports for all the games we play would take way to much time. Monitoring traffic is easier and takes less time than trying to figure out which ports need opened to which games. (Yeah, my home is much more open to being hacked than any other network I touch. That's one reason I use vultr to host my lab stuff.)
oh - hmm.. interesting. Yeah I turn that shit off and just deal with ports as needed.
If you ask me, I highly recommend it be turned off. I keep the 2nd monitor displaying the active connections that the router is making, but most people don't even know how to get that information, let alone figure out when connections to something bad are being made.
What router are you using?
