Last Week’s DDoS Attack Might Only Be The First Volley (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Last Friday was a mess on the Internet. Big swathes of Spotify and Twitter grinding to a halt. Of Reddit and AirBnB and Etsy and the New York Times, paralyzed. Six thousand web sites overwhelmed in a cyber-attack launched from an army of little gizmos. A sea of web cams and DVRs quietly taken over and weaponized for attack. This was new. And it points to a disturbingly vulnerable future as the internet runs everything. This hour On Point, denial of service, and the future of the web. — Tom Ashbrook
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http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/10/25/ddos-internet-of-things-attack