Dyn DDoS attack exposes soft underbelly of the cloud

Dyn DDoS attack exposes soft underbelly of the cloud

It’s apparently possible that a DDoS attack can be big enough to break the internet — or, as shown in the attack against ISP Dyn, at least break large parts of it.

The DDoS attack against Dyn that began Friday went far past taking down Dyn’s servers. Beyond the big-name outages, organizations could not access important corporate applications or perform critical business operations.

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