ZDNet

Four years after the Dyn DDoS attack, critical DNS dependencies have only gone up

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HHS

Guilty Plea in 2016 Dyn DDoS Attack

A map tracking outages resulting from the October 2016 DDoS attack on Dyn (Source: downdetector.com) One of those responsible for the massive Mirai-based DDoS attack launched in October 2016 that ...
Network World

Answers to ‘Is the internet broken?’ and other Dyn DDoS questions

The massive DDoS attacks that took down internet address-translation service Dyn and its customers last week raise a lot of need-to-know questions about the overall security of online infrastructure ...
InfoWorld

Dyn DDoS attack exposes soft underbelly of the cloud

The DDoS attack against Dyn affected numerous websites, but the biggest victims are the enterprises that rely on SaaS for critical business operations It’s apparently possible that a DDoS attack can ...
Bleeping Computer

Teen who shook the Internet in 2016 pleads guilty to DDoS attacks

One of the operators behind a Mirai botnet pleaded guilty to their involvement in a huge DDoS attack that caused a massive Internet disruption during October 2016. Multiple high-profile websites and ...
Business Wire

NETSCOUT Combines Leading Global Threat Intelligence With Machine Learning to Protect Enterprises From Rapidly Spreading Dynamic DDoS Attacks

WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of performance management, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, today released its latest ...
Newsweek

Quora Question: What Motivates Hackers’ DDoS Attacks?

Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the ...
Engadget

DOJ announces guilty plea for 2016 cyberattack that broke the internet

More than four years after the Dyn cyberattack in 2016, we have a better idea of who was behind one of the most disruptive DDoS attacks in internet history. This week, the Justice Department announced ...
ExtremeTech

Internet struck by waves of outages as massive DDoS attack affects major services

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Mashable

The most ironic thing about this massive internet attack

Knowing a lot about something doesn't always mean you can stop it. Two days before a massive distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) shut down a huge chunk of the internet on Friday, a researcher ...
CSOonline

Rethinking DDoS Defenses

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CSOonline

The only realistic plan to avoid DDoS disaster

Last Friday’s massive DDoS attack against Dyn.com and its DNS services slowed down or knocked out internet connectivity for millions of users for much of the day. Unfortunately, these sorts of attacks ...