Insecure «internet of things» devices have already contributed to major cyber-disasters, such as the October 2016 cyberattack on internet routing
company Dyn that took down more than 80 popular websites and stalled internet traffic across the U.S..
With the collected power of millions of these devices working in tandem, the hackers sent wave after wave of web request to Internet service
company Dyn.
Not exact matches
Hackers pummeled the code - sharing site's servers with 1.35 terabytes per second of bogus Internet traffic — 15 % stronger than the next biggest DDoS attack, which targeted
Dyn, an Internet infrastructure
company (now owned by Oracle), in late 2016.
Like many SaaS
companies,
Dyn started as a small niche player in an important corner of the Internet — Managed DNS — and slowly carved out a space, honing our product and beating competitors on service, pricing, relationships and added - value until we grew to be the market leader.
Things have changed a lot for
Dyn over the 15 years since its inception — and many of the biggest shifts have come since I joined the
company almost eight years ago.
The attacks mainly focused on
Dyn, one of the
companies that run the internet's domain name system (DNS).
What a DOS attack involves is the flooding of this (
Dyn)
company's servers with millions of fake requests from sources for service to go to those web sites.
People remember Amazon - dot - com, but they don't remember the numerical IP address (which is actually where a
company like
Dyn sends web users going to a site like Amazon).
The
companies being investigated include AES Corp. (AES), Dominion (D), Dynegy (
DYN), Peabody Energy (BTU) and Xcel Energy (XEL).
Cybersecurity
company Flashpoint said Friday the botnet attacking
Dyn was built with the same malicious software that launched the attack against Krebs and French website OVH — the two most powerful DDoS attacks on record.
Summary Currently working in the shipping department at a
company that manufacturers sorters and
dyn...