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The Mirai botnet: three men plead guilty after weaponizing the Internet of Things
By Graham Cluley on Thu, 12/14/2017
No-one responsible for computer security should forget what happened in October 2016. The Mirai botnet launched an attack on the internet, the scale of which had never been seen before. By unleashing a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on DNS service company Dyn, Mirai managed to knock out significant chunks of the internet -...