How was the Internet of Things able to take down the Internet?

A huge number of websites, including some of the biggest names, were knocked off the internet recently due to a gigantic distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is where thousands to millions of devices all send traffic to a target to completely overload its servers or internet connection. In the recent case the […]

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