Last month, the Internet went down for a few hours. Sites from Netflix, Spotify, and Reddit to The New York Times went dark. The massive outage was the result of an attack on an Internet infrastructure company called Dyn, which has now been acquired by Oracle, reports Wired .
Oracle, a database giant, is in the midst of a reinvention: it wants to become a cloud computing company that can compete with the likes of Amazon and Google, which explains the acquisition. Read this article for details on why a company like Dyn caught the interest of Oracle.