Posted on 10/21/2016 2:04:09 PM PDT by Innovative
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reportedly investigating. The attack raised fears that this could be a trial run for an attempt at a major disruption of the U.S. presidential election.
While many of the websites affected by the first attack, which hit the East Coast, are back up, sites hosted on the West Coast, including Twitter and Recode, have been hit, and were unavailable for many as of 11 a.m. Friday. As of 11 a.m., Dyn’s online update about its response to the attacks said the company was continuing to “investigate and mitigate.”
The outages appear to have resulted from a “distributed denial of services” attack on web hosting firm Dyn. Firms such as Dyn “act as the internet’s phone book and facilitate your request to go to a certain webpage and make sure you are taken to the right place. If the (domain name server) provider that handles requests for Twitter is down, well, good luck getting to Twitter,” explains Gizmodo.
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This was from their Twitter account, not their website. It is very active, I think we’d notice if it was hacked.
It’s not the Russians and it’s not “WikiLeaks supporters”
This is PURE establishment BS...I’m betting it’s a prelude to exactly that...using it as a pre-text to invalidate a Trump victory. ALL the polls show Hillary is ahead. ALL the news say Trump is a doofus. ALL the establishment politicians say Trump doesn’t have a chance. There’s NO WAY he won fair and square...RUSSIA HELPED! Heck this lie is already 3/4 formed.
***This is a test of the Internet Kill Switch. They are preparing for the coup.***
Yep. Wake up people.
Haven’t made changes since just prior to third debate. Those changes didn’t make a positive impact at the time, but they should have some impact on performance. So perhaps that is what we’re seeing. I am going to attempt another tweak tonight.
Thanks for that, John.
Had already called it a day and just found your reply this morning.
For what it’s worth, the site’s still really hoppin’ in PA so far .. YUGE improvement over the past week or so !
Cheers, FRiend
Sounds fake must be Obama planning to rig the election. Dry run.
No one I know on the East Coast has had any problem with their internet.
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