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Top 5 Things to Know About Recent IoT Attacks

   Recent internet attacks resulted in popular sites becoming unreachable, such as Twitter, Etsy, Spotify, AirBnB, Github, and the New York Times. These incidents have brought to light a new threat to online services: Internet of Things (IoT) botnets. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been commonplace for over a decade but rarely been too troublesome. For the past several years’ network providers’ security services have been able to absorb such attacks to keep online properties available. But the game has now changed.
Here are 5 things you should know about the recent IoT attacks!

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