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Oracle acquires DNS provider Dyn for more than $600 Million

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Yes, Oracle just bought the DNS provider company that brought down the Internet last month.

Business software vendor Oracle announced on Monday that it is buying cloud-based Internet performance and Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn.

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The Dyn DNS DDoS That Killed Half The Internet

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Last week the Dyn DNS DDoS took out most of the East coast US websites including monsters like Spotify, Twitter, Netflix, Github, Heroku and many more. Hopefully it wasn’t because I shared the Mirai source code and some script kiddies got hold of it and decided to talk half of the US websites out. A […]

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An Army of Million Hacked IoT Devices Almost Broke the Internet Today

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A massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a major domain name system (DNS) provider, broke large portions of the Internet on Friday, causing a significant outage to a ton of websites and services, including Twitter, GitHub, Pay… Continue reading An Army of Million Hacked IoT Devices Almost Broke the Internet Today→