Amazon s web site was sluggish and, at times, completely down on Wednesday evening. The same fate greeted Wal-Mart, Expedia, and a number of smaller sites. Bad actor obtained passwords for servers, home routers, and smart devices by scanning internet for devices open to the Telnet port. Read the full article in this week’s Mashable.com/News/Electronic-Security Week. Back to the page you came from: http://www.mashable.co.uk/news/newsonline.com.
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