The FTC is offering $25,000 to whomever presents a viable solution for automatically guarding or patching IoT software vulnerabilities. The proposed tool is meant to help consumers keep their home network smart devices safe from hackers, to prevent them from being used in massive Distributed Denial of Service attacks. After the Mirai botnet, comprised of allegedly millions of compromised IoT devices, led to massive internet outages, the FTCs competition seeks a solution to prevent such attacks from reoccurring.”]