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…