Mirai Botnet Creators Plead Guilty

December 22, 2017 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

The creators of the Mirai botnet pleaded guilty earlier this month in an Anchorage courtroom. The Mirai botnet unleashed a distributed denial of service attack on the French cellular carrier OVH and another DDoS attack against DYN, the DNS provider for Amazon, Netflix and many other heavy duty web sites. The DDoS attacks took those […]

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The Day The Internet Died

October 22, 2016 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Well, not exactly, but close. And it was not due to pictures of Kim Kardashian. Here is what happened. When you type in the name of a website to visit, say Facebook.com, the Internet needs to translate that name into an address. That address might look like 157.240.2.35 . The software that translates those names […]

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