Combating Botnets in IoT Devices

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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have existed since the late 1990s, but the category of cyberattacks came to the forefront of the computing industry, and even to the at tention of the public at large, due to high-profile attacks in late 2016. In a DDoS attack, numerous computing devices are compromised via malware and commanded to seek out and infect other devices, forming a “botnet” network of compromised machines. This botnet is later employed in a coordinated attempt to flood one or more Internet resources with so much incoming traffic from so many sources that legitimate users are unable to access the resources. Show more