[Scott from the Left Coast]

...in English?

[Becki]

Sorry, I was just getting dinner on the table for hubby. Gotta keep him happy. ;^)

On Oct 21 2016 there was a huge DDOS attack on DYN. It is a major hub and services AWS (Amazon), Akamai, and many many others.

It brought down almost the entire east coast.

I do advanced technical support for my company's website. Our DNS is hosted through Akamai so we were down as well.

But IOT is a huge vulnerability on the web. IOT is anything that accesses the web. Phones, fridges, microwaves, watches, satelites, the smoker in my back yard, anything. Basically, all these devices sold that are made in China were infected with a code that was activated on Oct 21. That code, through these devices that are world wide, generated the attack that brought down all the systems.

I think that is what Q is referring to in drop #776