The Mirai-fueled DDoS attacks that took the entire country of Liberia offline last week are waning—but researchers say the offensive was merely a test run for something much bigger. …
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DDoS attack on Dyn could have been prevented
The Online Trust Association says the recent DDoS attack that took down portions of the internet for several hours could have been “easily” avoided by improving the security of IoT…
DDoS attack overwhelmed Dyn despite mitigation efforts
Orders of magnitude fewer devices caused the service interruptions, Dyn says. By Tim Greene Dyn says that the DDoS attack that swamped its DNS resolution service last week was backed…