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Cyber Wars
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Cyber Wars

by Charles Arthur
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
248 pages
6h 19m
English
Kogan Page
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The internet of hacked things

Mirai

I don’t think there are enough facts to definitively point a finger at me.

PARAS JHA, when asked by security researcher Brian Krebs whether he wrote and operated the Mirai botnet

On Friday 21 October 2016, the internet looked wrong to a lot of people on the east coast of the US. Those getting up at 7.00 am on the east coast found Twitter wouldn’t load. Nor would Amazon, nor Spotify. Nor Reddit. Netflix wasn’t showing programmes. Was this the long-heralded cyber war? Except, strangely, some other sites loaded fine. Had someone pulled out a plug somewhere? Or was it something else?

After a couple of hours it seemed to stop. Life continued as normal as far as most people were aware – though in fact, at around ...

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ISBN: 9780749481995