Yesterday’s massive Internet outage was caused by hijacked DVRs, webcams and more

BGR
By Yoni HeislerOct 22, 2016, 2:51 pm353 pts
Hackers yesterday attacked Dyn, a major DNS service, with an absolutely massive DDoS attack that swiftly took a number of popular services, including Twitter, PayPal and Spotify, offline. While DDoS attacks are nothing new in and of themselves, there are two aspects to yesterday's widespread assault on the…

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