A giant botnet made up of zombie internet-connected devices (or IoT devices) was used to strike a massive Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (DDoS) against Brian Krebs’ website, the site of a well-known cybersecurity blogger, last month.

Some have estimated the botnet’s size may have been a million strong.

Worse, as Krebs reported on the 1 Oct:

 “The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching ...