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Major DDoS attack on Dyn DNS knocks Spotify, Twitter, Github, PayPal, and more offline

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Update 5: At 6:18 P.M. Eastern Dyn said the DDoS attacks have been resolved. Fingers crossed another wave doesn’t occur, as happened earlier today. You can find Dyn’s incident report here. Update 4: Dyn is being hit by a third wave of

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An IoT botnet is partly behind Friday’s massive DDOS attack

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Malware that can build botnets out of IoT devices is at least partly responsible for a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted U.S. internet traffic on Friday, according to network security companies. Since Friday morning, the assault has been disrupting

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