It may be old news to most of us, but researchers and experts are still sifting through the data on last week’s staggering distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

For those few who haven’t heard, someone launched a massive DDoS attack on a domain name server (DNS) last Friday. This is important because DNS are responsible for translating the web addresses we humans use (like www.geek.com) into data that computers and routers and the like can understand.

When a DNS goes down, computers get confused and have no idea where to go unless you manually type in the address of the site you need. Since basically ... read on at http://etech9ja..com.ng/2016/10/beginning-of-dark-era-for-cyber-security.html