Law360, New York (April 12, 2017, 5:49 PM EDT) -- In September 2016, the world saw for the first time the staggering power when household connected devices rebelled and took down significant swathes of the internet. No, this was not the rise of a malicious artificial intelligence with a grudge against humanity. It was a swarm of DVR players, routers and webcams, bound together in the Mirai botnet that were directed to flood network traffic in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a company that provides a significant portion of the U.S. internet backbone to companies such as Amazon, Twitter and Netflix. The root cause of the attack: weak or nonexistent security in vast numbers of consumer-grade connected devices, allowing the Mirai software to infect and conscript the devices soon after they are connected to the internet....
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