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DDoS protection

On October 21, 2016, a massive internet outage was caused by attackers targeting DYN's DNS servers using a Mirai botnet. The Mirai exploit takes advantage of vulnerabilities in IP cameras and DVRs made by a Chinese company called XionMai Technologies. Rather than attacking a target, the attackers decided to take down a major part of the internet's infrastructure, knocking out most of the east and west coast of America. The Mirai exploit takes advantage of just 60 usernames and passwords to attempt to update the firmware of the vulnerable devices. Once the malware had been installed, the device was then controllable by the botnet. All that was left to do was tell the bots to start a DNS attack against DYNs nameservers.

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