[ryanlol]

>The unfortunate truth is that with the Internet of Things the amount of devices that can easily be taken over has grown so fast that we see DDoS attacks of unprecedented size.

Not quite, the "IoT" botnets are particularly small in the great scheme of things. Google "conficker" for example.

Edit: Interesting how this is getting downvoted so much. Conficker had up to 15 million nodes, far bigger than any "IoT" net (when did home routers become IoT anyway?). It's far easier to build such huge windows nets because you get millions of insecure computers with relatively standard hardware and software, not so much with "IoT".

In the past decently sized botnets simply weren't used to send DDoS attacks as much, that's all that's changed.