IDG Contributor Network: IoT and healthcare IT security: from firefighting to building code upgrades

Over this past weekend, a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack — technical speak for a cyberattack — crippled parts of the internet by targeting Dyn, a provider of domain name services (DNS). In simple terms, a DNS provider routes internet traffic like an air traffic controller. By targeting a DNS provider with a flood of junk requests by a “zombie army” of botnets (a standard modus operandi for these types of attacks), major services such as Twitter, Netflix