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Oracle acquires DNS provider Dyn for more than $600 Million

Yes, Oracle just bought the DNS provider company that brought down the Internet last month.

Business software vendor Oracle announced on Monday that it is buying cloud-based Internet performance and Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn.

Dyn is the same company that was hit by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack by the Mirai botnet last month which knocked the entire

Megaupload Domains Seized by FBI 'Hijacked' to Host Porn Ads

Well, we all know that the FBI has previously hosting porn on the Internet. I still remember the case of PlayPen, the world’s largest dark web child pornography site, which was seized by FBI and ran from agency’s own servers to uncover the site’s visitors.

Now, one of the most popular sites owned and operated by the FBI has been serving porn as well.

FBI-owned Megaupload.org and several