eSecurity Planet – British security researcher Kevin Beaumont recently reported that a series of massive cyber attacks using the Mirai DDoS botnet periodically disabled all Internet access throughout the country of Liberia. “Liberia has one Internet cable, installed in 2011, which provides a single point of failure for Internet access. … The attacks are extremely worrying because they suggest a Mirai operator who has enough capacity to seriously impact systems in a nation state,” Beaumont wrote. An employee at a Liberian mobile service provider told Network World that the attacks were hurting his business. “It’s killing our revenue,” he said. “Our business has been targeted frequently.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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