How the internet was Brought Down by Malware-Infected Webcams and Wi-Fi-Enabled Thermostats

How the internet was Brought Down by Malware-Infected Webcams and Wi-Fi-Enabled Thermostats

Friday saw many of the web’s largest website suffer outages, when a major internet infrastructure company was struck by a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack coming from unlikely sources. Millions of people, most notably those on the US’ eastern seaboard, were unable to access websites ranging from Twitter to the New York Times…

Twitter, Reddit, Spotify Were Collateral Damage In Major Internet Attack

Twitter, Reddit, Spotify Were Collateral Damage In Major Internet Attack

Twitter, Reddit, Github, Spotify, and many others were knocked offline intermittently on Friday morning as a result of a cyberattack on a large internet infrastructure provider. The popular websites became the collateral damage of a “global” Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attack on Dyn, a company that provides core internet services for those popular…