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Why Today’s Attacks on the Internet Are Just the Start

Gone Baby Gone

Thanks to powerful new botnets, hackers now have the ability to knock major companies—even whole countries—offline.

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Back in September Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist, wrote about hackers probing the internet for points of weakness in an attempt to have the ability to take the entire net offline.

A lot of people blew that article off at the time as unrealistic.

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