DDoS attack that took down Dyn DNS service blamed on Mirai IoT botnet

Chris Merriman
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Attack that took major websites offline blamed on insecure connected devices

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that took down the DNS services of web infrastructure company Dyn has been blamed on the Mirai botnet, which exploits security weaknesses in Internet o...

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