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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It’s gotten onto one of the ec2 amazon instances I use at work. Fortunetly one I didn’t need and could terminate.
This is a test of the Internet Kill Switch. They are preparing for the coup.
From Wikileaks: “Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point.”
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This is the US govt preparing to do ANYTHING to make sure trump doesn’t get into office.
Ryan probably knows about it.
Didn’t Obama threaten Russia with a Cyber attack? Is “Russia” code for “America”?
Nonsense.
Kill Switch is completely different.
West Coast, just south of Seattle.
No problem here.
i can get twitter and reddit but couldn’t 2 hours ago..west coast
Just now on Twitter: Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789574436219449345
How do you know?
Wow
those darn Russians again...
Oops..meant to ping you...wiki saus Assange alive
So glad we gave away control of the Internet. >:(
Now *that* is interesting.
I was watching an IT website attacks all day.
The Britts were doing far more to defend the world than the USA was.
Actually it was kind of fascinating to watch real-time.
Attacks were primarily from China and Dubai.
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