A major cyber attack that disrupted Internet service for major users like Twitter and Amazon in parts of the United States on Friday was the first robot-based digital assault using the Internet of Things—millions of linked devices operating in concert.
The bad news from the outage is that cyber security analysts are predicting the cyber attack was likely first of many large-scale "distributed denial of service" cyber attacks, or DDoS—strikes that target internet service rather than seek to steal data.
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