Oh, What a Fragile Web We Weave: Third-party Service Dependencies In Modern Webservices and Implications

Aqsa Kashaf, Carolina Zarate, Hanrou Wang +2

The recent October 2016 DDoS attack on Dyn served as a wakeup call to the security community as many popular and independent webservices (e.g., Twitter, Spotify) were impacted. Thi…