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How do IoT devices get used for a botnet?

Darren
October 27, 2016
News
How do IoT devices get used for a botnet? As investigations continue after the outage caused by the DDoS against Dyn, a large DNS provider last week it's useful to gain a greater understanding of just how this... Read More...

So who are Dyn and why would a DDOS against them break the internet?

Darren
October 22, 2016
IT/Enterprise, Networking, News
As we reported yesterday, a not so insignificant portion of the internet was rendered inaccessible due to a DDOS attack against a company that many people may have never heard of prior to these events, this doe... Read More...
DDoS Attack

DDoS attack hits major DNS provider, slowing the Internet

Jeff Williams
October 21, 2016
News
It appears that one of the major providers of DNS services to the east coast of the US, Dyn, was hit by a concentrated DDoS attack large enough to slow down their services. Dyn provides the DNS backbone to site... Read More...
DDoS

DDoS attacks are on the rise again, up 139%

Jeff Williams
September 19, 2016
IT/Enterprise, News
The distributed denial of service attack is one of the premier methods of denying internet services and applications to the general public and business alike. In fact, it seems that the use of the DDoS has rise... Read More...

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