{"id":193254,"date":"2017-01-05T16:19:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=193254"},"modified":"2017-01-05T16:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:20:56","slug":"fight-against-mirai-like-botnet-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/193254-fight-against-mirai-like-botnet-attacks.html","title":{"rendered":"Fight against Mirai-like botnet attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/securifi-launches-the-worlds-first-solution-to-protect-against-mirai-like-botnet-attacks-using-machine-learning-300385289.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Securifi has launched<\/strong><\/a> an IoT device security service to protect against Mirai-like botnet attacks using machine learning.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1.5 million smart home devices have been affected by the Mirai botnet over the last few months.<\/p>\n<p>Securifi\u2019s IoT security service combats this issue by protecting connected home devices like DVRs, IP cameras, and smart thermostats from online threats.<\/p>\n<p>The service currently only works with Securifi\u2019s Almond 3 mesh router.<\/p>\n<p>Almond 3 uses machine learning algorithms to identify devices prone to Mirai-like botnet attacks, using\u00a0the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatically detect all devices prone to Mirai-like botnet attacks in your network.<\/li>\n<li>Flag devices with an unusual traffic pattern.<\/li>\n<li>Almond 3 will only monitor outbound traffic from these devices and will not decrypt any data packets.<\/li>\n<li>Automatically detect zombie devices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pricing for the service will be $3.99 per month for a limited period and will increase to $9.99 per month when additional features are rolled out.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/192658-whatsapps-big-improvements-and-privacy-changes-in-2016.html\">WhatsApp\u2019s big improvements and privacy changes in 2016<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Securifi has launched the world&#8217;s first solution to protect against Mirai-like botnet attacks using machine learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40452,40450,40448],"class_list":["post-193254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-almond-3-mesh-router","tag-mirai-botnet","tag-securifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193406,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193254\/revisions\/193406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}