Archive for October 2024
The Dyn DDoS: attacking the Internet’s global address system
By Tanzeer Hossein On October 21, 2016, one of the most significantDistributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks occurred. The target was a DNS (Domain Name System) service provider called Dyn. This attack severely disrupted several internet services across the US and even some parts of Europe. This caused outages for some popular websites such as…
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