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title: "S9E08 – IoT Botnet Brings Down Important Websites, Republicans Get Scammed By Russians"
season: 9
episode: 8
pubDate: 2016-10-24
duration: "1:17:35"
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In this episode, Mike and Tara discuss a huge attack which took place last week, which involved a botnet of infected Internet of Things devices being used to target major websites across the internet with DDoS attacks. Additionally, they discuss a situation where a prominent Republican merchandise online store was found to be infected with \[…\]
