Last Friday’s massive DDoS attack against Dyn.com and its DNS services slowed down or knocked out internet connectivity for millions of users for much of the day. Unfortunately, these sorts of attacks cannot be easily mitigated. We have to live with them for now.
Huge DDoS attacks that take down entire sites can be accomplished for a pittance. In the age of the insecure internet of things, hackers have plenty of free firepower. Say the wrong thing against the wrong person and you can be removed from the web, as Brian Krebs recently discovered.
