Security: Massive DDoS Attack Causes Internet Disruption******

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Security

Massive DDoS Attack Causes Internet Disruption for Several Popular Sites, Including Twitter

By Shaikh Rafia

Posted 2 hours ago

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Early this morning, attackers launched a cyberattack on a major internet management company. Dyn, which hosts domain name systems, announced today that it faced a massive cyberattack that caused problems for several websites, including some big names.

Several sites go offline after massive DDoS cyberattack

Dyn DNS is used by many websites as their upstream DNS provider, including Wired, PayPal, Github, and others. The problem with several of these popular sites and services appeared after a DDoS attack against the DNS service provider. All of these sites reported experiencing complete or partial outages and downtime. The DNS works like a mapping system for websites, figuring out and locating the human-readable, text URLs you type in the browser and locating servers that host the site’s data.

Following the attack, people also reported issues with Twitter, SoundCloud, Airbnb, Spotify, Vox Media sites, and several other popular sites.

https://twitter.com/SpotifyStatus/status/789451018782277632

The company confirmed that DDoS attack started at 7am EST and mostly affected users in the East Coast. Dyn reported that it has resolved the attack as of 9:20 am EST. However, Twitter still appears to be offline for many users.

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[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

About all I can get is Free Republic and a cold drink of water here.

[TheConservativeBanker]

Could Freepers who are not the “blackout” area share high impact twitter information on the forum?

[snarkpup]

A couple of questions for everyone: Do you connect to the internet with a modem, and do you have anything else in the house connected to the internet besides just a computer (digital appliance, etc.)? When was the last time you upgraded the firmware in these things? This DDoS attack may be coming from your house.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping

[McGruff]

LOL. I’m right in the middle of that big red blotch and I am posting right now.

[Black Agnes]

Like what/who’s feed?

Gimme a feed and I’ll cut/paste some tidbits

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Listening to CNBC...there is a second attack going on now!

[newnhdad]

How long before we hear the the only way we can be protected from this is to pay more taxes and have the govt control more of our lives?

[TheConservativeBanker]

Project Veritas is the primary one that I have been trying to follow today. I’m not sure about anyone else in the outage area. Thank you.

[monkeywrench]

I have been trying to get on all day. Just got on. This has happened every day for the past week.

[Talisker]

There are more methods than just DDOS. This is a very low level attack, affecting the internet switching and distribution hubs for entire regions, not just the individual affected websites.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am on the West Coast ___ Los Angeles and I am having no problems that I am aware of!

[Revel]

Well I can say that the only place I found to be dead is Twitter. I have checked some of the others mentioned and they are all up for me.

[Black Agnes]

James O'Keefe ‏@JamesOKeefeIII 9m9 minutes ago

.@realBobWoodward joined @oreillyfactor to talk about the scandalous @PVeritas_Action videos. More videos to come. Stay tuned. #Veritas

James O'Keefe ‏@JamesOKeefeIII 15m15 minutes ago

.@donnabrazile basically said:"There's no proof we actually did what we were filmed doing." This is why we'll drip out more film. Stay tuned 0 replies 440 retweets 693 likes

James O'Keefe Retweeted

Western Journalism ‏@WestJournalism 24h24 hours ago

Hillary Ignores Question About Democratic Operatives Purposely Sparking Violence At Trump Rallies

http://www.westernjournalism.com/hillary-clinton-completely-ignores-question-about-democratic-operatives-purposely-sparking-violence-at-trump-rallies/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=westjournalism

[maggief]

“Listening to CNBC...there is a second attack going on now!”

We need this up in breaking news!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Whee are you located...this just is active today I think,....

You may other issues.

[rolling_stone]

in san diego can’t get reddit or twitter

[CJ Wolf]

apparently seeing reports of ATMs going down.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

CNBC mentioned Netflix and others, Spodify ...