What is a Botnet?
Perhaps you’re wondering – What is a botnet? Friday’s massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on major providers of the internet backbone caused massive interruptions for millions of users and prevented access to dozens of popular...
Webcam firm recalls hackable devices after mighty Mirai botnet attack
Chinese electronic firm XiongMai will recall some of its IoT devices, after claims that they were used to launch a massive denial-of-service attack. The distributed denial-of-service attack targeted domain name service Dyn, who confirmed this weekend in a statement that it was hit by a “sophisticated attack”.
Yesterday’s Dyn DDoS attack may be the way of the future
On Friday (21 October), cyber-criminals mounted a global DDoS attacks on internet services firm Dyn. While it was not immediately clear who was responsible. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were both said to be...