The Mirai Botnet And The Internet Outage On October 21st 2016
In preparation for my upcoming conference talk “The Internet of Things and iOS: Don’t let your toaster bring down the internet!” I have been doing a lot of research on the Mirai botnet. The Mirai (Japanese for “The Future”) botnet was used in a DDoS attack against the DNS service provider Dyn on October 21st, 2016. In this attack, some IoT devices were used to block their servers, bringing down popular sites such as ...