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PowerPoint Slideshow: Mirai Botnet: How IoT Botnets Performed Massive DDoS Attacks and Negatively Impacted Hundreds of Thousands of Internet Businesses and Users in October 2016

PDF: http://billslater.com/mirai.pdf

PowerPoint Slideshow: Mirai Botnet: How IoT Botnets Performed Massive DDoS Attacks and Negatively Impacted Hundreds of Thousands of Internet Businesses and Users in October 2016

PDF: http://billslater.com/mirai/mirai_asis.pdf

Resource Documents and presentation on the Mirai Botnet Attacks of October 2016 is at this OneDrive link: https://goo.gl/v1w9Cr

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