Linked – The Botnet That Broke the Internet Isn’t Going Away
WHEN THE BOTNET named Mirai first appeared in September, it announced its existence with dramatic flair. After flooding a prominent security journalist’s website with traffic from zombie Internet of Things devices, it managed to make much of the internet unavailable for millions of people by overwhelming Dyn, a company that provides a significant portion of the US internet’s backbone. Since then, the number attacks have only increased. What’s increasingly clear is that Mirai is a powerfully disruptive force. What’s increasingly not? How to stop it.
There are going to be more problems, and this is probably going to get worse, and more disruptive before it gets better. Batten down the hatches, and take care to have backups, and lots of alternate ways to get to your data.
https://www.wired.com/2016/12/botnet-broke-internet-isnt-going-away/?mbid=social_fb
