After a large-scale distributed denial of service attack took down large portions of the internet today, Dyn reported our connected devices could be responsible for the attack. Here's how it works: A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack uses multiple machines to attack a central server. These server requests choke the network and allow few, if any, legitimate requests to get through. When a user attempts to access this server, they're met with a message that it's not available. Now, the reason this attack was so massive relates to how it was carried out. Rather than attack individual servers at websites like Twitter,…
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