It was a bad day for the Global Internet last Friday.Here is a report:After massive cyberattack, shoddy smart device security comes back to hauntAlmost everyone affected by the cyberattack had a part to play — from shipping shoddy devices to a consumer apathy towards security.By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | October 22, 2016 -- 18:49 GMT (05:49 AEDT) | Topic: Security Friday morning saw the largest internet blackout in US history. Almost every corner of the web was affected in some way -- streaming services like Spotify, social sites like Twitter and Reddit, and news sites like Wired and Vox appeared offline to vast swathes of the eastern seaboard.After suffering three separate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Dyn, the domain name system provider for hundreds of major websites, recovered and the web started to spring back to life.The flooding attack was designed to overload systems and prevent people from accessing the sites they want on a scale never seen before this.All...
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