Archived How massive DDoS attacks are undermining the Internet (techcrunch.com)
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Archived How massive DDoS attacks are undermining the Internet (techcrunch.com)
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'On Friday morning, I awoke to find that our company-wide single sign-on and cloud storage was disrupted due to the massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against domain host Dyn. '
'Moreover, DDoS attacks aren’t the only problem with vulnerable IoT devices: these devices can also be a pathway for hackers to get behind a company’s firewall. '
'If someone wants to launch a DDoS attack, they no longer have to purchase a botnet—they can create their own using a program that was dumped on the internet just a few weeks ago. '
'We do not need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to protecting networks from IoT. But we need to recognize that massive DDoS attacks utilizing IoT devices have the potential to undermine the reliability and availability of the internet. '
'Some IoT devices can be patched, others can’t. '
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