It’s a new world record; web hosting firm OVH has been hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack reaching speeds of 1.5 Tbps, following an attack on the website belonging to security journalist Brian Krebs. This latest attack smashes the previous record of a 650 Gbps attack just a few weeks ago, which was also inflicted on Krebs’ website. This overwhelming surge of traffic was achieved using an army of 145,607 botnets comprised of compromised cameras and DVRs, with each IP address firing requests at 1Mbps to 30Mbps. This throws up some serious concerns for the advancement of the IoT and the adoption of smart home technologies in particular; if a home consists of one hundred or more…