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The 2016 Dyn Attack and its Lessons for IoT Security

by on July 30, 2018 10:11 pm
On October 21, 2016, the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack took place, shutting down most of the Internet, including Twitter, Amazon, GitHub, and the New York Times.[1]  The attack targeted Dyn, a company that services a large share of the internet’s domain name system (DNS) infrastructure, and lasted for most of the day.… Read more The 2016 Dyn Attack and its Lessons for IoT Security