Yet another example of how nobody, regardless of size, resources nor expertise, is immune from DNS outages. Last week several Microsoft systems experienced a global outage when the company made a configuration error whilst migrating some legacy, infrastructure domains, to their own Azure platform. The errors had second-order effects within the Azure ecosystem ... View Post
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A Deep Dive into the Mirai Botnet Attack
As we all know, on Friday Oct 21, 2016 DNS provider Dynect was severely impacted by a big DDoS attack which has since been attributed to the Mirai Botnet. (interesting to note that “Mirai” means “future” in Japanese). Briefly: The Mirai Botnet is constructed by commandeering network connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as remote cameras, or any other ... View Post