House subcommittees to examine cyberattacks behind recent widespread internet disruptions

The cyberattacks that caused widespread internet disruptions in North America and Europe last month will be the subject of a congressional hearing next week, lawmakers said Wednesday. Members of two key House subcommittee devoted to technology matters will discuss the recent unprecedented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks waged against Dyn, a U.S.-based Domain Name System (DNS) provider,…