Tag: DDoS

The Evolution of Mirai Botnet Source Code Presents Increased Risk of Large-Scale DDoS Attacks

Over the past few years, several major distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks took place, including a major event affecting the domain name service provider Dyn, which caused outages and slowness for a number of popular sites, including Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Twitter. However, since several of these large, highly-publicized attacks occurred in 2016, […]