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Number of consecutive hours in which a U.S. college was impacted by a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack in February, which was recently made public by web application security company Incapsula. The attack has put Internet of Things security into the spotlight again. Incapsula said the attack on the network of the unnamed college indicated that the offenders are becoming more adept at launching application-layer assaults on vulnerable IoT devices. The DDoS attack on the college could indicate that IoT attacks are being modified to launch more elaborate – and larger – application-layer attacks, according to Incapsula.