Last week, security news site KrebsOnSecurity went dark for more than 24 hours following what was believed to be a record 620 gigabit-per-second denial of service attack brought on by an ensemble of routers, security cameras, or other so-called Internet of Things devices. Now, there's word of a similar attack on a French Web host that peaked at a staggering 1.1 terabits per second, more than 60 percent bigger.
Now I turn on a Logitech Squeezebox to do the same thing. But this morning it failed.
1. The box itself (hardware, firmware)
2. My Internet router
3. My cable modem
4. My ISP
5. The Internet fabric between my ISP and Logitech’s ISP
6. The Squeezebox service itself
The Squeezebox platform is officially discontinued, but Logitech hasn’t told current owners what they should expect from now on.