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.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
The cyber attack coud even come from internal ( NSA)
Practice run !
Looked at it, you trust the info?
Yep they are preparing to block anti Hillary news at election time.
If you agree, don’t raise your hands.
This East Coaster has been online all day. Don’t believe everything you are told.
Is that real!?!
Bump.
WikiLeaks @wikileaks 20m20 minutes ago
Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point.
Were you on Norse? Because their site was up and down all day.
DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS
Update - Our engineers continue to investigate and mitigate several attacks aimed against the Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure.
Oct 21, 20:37 UTC
I’m sure it’s a trail run. Being done by our government. Make your posts count, folks. Each one may be your las
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A dramatic ending to your post!
Thanks for the ping! Just to add, I have been on Twitter all day.
WAG THE DOG!!!
Just watched it a couple days ago...it is very appro!!!
You see something?
Those are all traditional Democrat strongholds.
They are preparing to make a claim of voter suppression by Russia.
They’re preparing for the FedGuv to seize special powers so all 50 elections can be managed from the FEDERAL level.
“The Russian prep indicates a threat to election fairness...”
He##, Lyin Ryan likely rubber stamped it.
To: Innovative
This is a test of the Internet Kill Switch. They are preparing for the coup.
What does “You’ve proved your point” mean?
How do you know this is real???
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