Why the DDoS attack should inspire greater IoT security

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and, even though it may have been coincidental, hackers demonstrated why this is an important month when they executed an attack on October 21.
To wit: On Friday, cloud-based Internet performance management company Dyn said it came under attack by a large Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attack against its managed DNS infrastructure in the US-East region.
Translation: Consumers saw outages on websites like Twitter, and a slew of