The most ironic thing about this massive internet attack

Oct 22 2016 by Mashable

 

Knowing a lot about something doesn't always mean you can stop it. 

Two days before a massive distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) shut down a huge chunk of the internet on Friday, a researcher at the server provider under assault gave a presentation on just that kind of attack. 

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Friday's attack was directed at Dyn, a firm that hosts domain name systems. 

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