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select all Jan. 18, 2017

The Mirai Botnet Was Probably Made by a Rutgers Student Who Brags Too MuchA massive investigation by internet-security expert Brian Krebs seems to have unmasked the person behind one of the most famous botnets ever.

By Jake Swearingen
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Last Friday’s Internet Outage Was Likely Caused by ‘Non-State Actors’Preliminary evidence suggests it wasn’t Russia or China.

By Brian Feldman
select all Oct. 21, 2016

This Is Why It’s So Easy to Break the Internet — and Why It’ll Happen AgainThe internet has a lot of pressure points.

By Brian Feldman
select all Oct. 21, 2016

This Is Why the Internet’s Been So Bad TodayThe attack is disrupting several important sites, and also Reddit.

By Brian Feldman
loose lips Dec. 8, 2010

Who Are Those ‘Anonymous’ WikiLeak Hacktivists?Turning up the veil on Operation Payback.

By Nitasha Tiku