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The Dyn attack affected 6% of the Fortune 500 companies such as Amazon, Netflix,Twitter, CNN, and Spotify. Shortly after the Krebs and OVH attacks, a dark agent going by the name of Anna-Senpai published the source code for Mirai, the botnet used in the attacks against Krebs, OVH, Dyn, and Deutsche Telekom (DT). Radware studied Mirai and the cyber-attacks and has provided detection signatures for our DefensePro products so that customers were protected from most of the Mirai attacks. In the specific case of the Dyn attack, one of the original nine attack vectors used was the DNS water torture attack. DNS water torture is a difficult attack to mitigate without taking down a full domain or rate-limiting requests in DNS servers. It affects organizations that host the authoritative DNS servers of a domain. For security reasons, organizations such as financial institutions prefer to host their authoritative DNS servers themselves. This is why Radware worked on new ways to mitigate DNS attacks, which resulted in new patented technologies that will shortly be introduced in our DDoS mitigation solutions. How can people protect themselves against these attacks? Provide a research-based response.