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October 22, 2016 02:00 am PDT
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Yesterday's internet-destroying outages were caused by "amateurish" IoT malware
Some of the internet's most popular, well-defended services -- including Twitter -- were knocked offline yesterday by a massive denial-of-service attack that security experts are blaming on botnets made from thousands of hacked embedded systems in Internet of Things devices like home security cameras and video recorders. (more…)
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