Massive Cyber Attack Cripples Large Internet Sites

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Having problems reaching your favorite internet sites today? You’re not alone.

Two massive denial of service attacks focused on Dyn, a company which provides access to multiple websites, knocked out Twitter, Reddit, Soundcloud and numerous other internet giants this morning.

A denial of service attack is a deliberate attempt to cripple an internet business by contacting it repeatedly with useless information. This makes the site unable to respond to legitimate customers.

Although this attack mainly affected internet users in the eastern United States, many users worldwide have been affected. While many of the sites are back up, others including the popular Tweetdeck are still inaccessible.

At 10:53 a.m., Dyn posted, “Our engineers continue to investigate and mitigate several attacks aimed against the Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure.”

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clearlake fool
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clearlake fool
7 years ago

im moderator on a few nascar chat sites and they use livefyre for chat and they all are down . have been for 4 hours i know of

Eastside
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Eastside
7 years ago

Ah, so that’s what’s going on.

Mercy Me, Mabel!
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Mercy Me, Mabel!
7 years ago

Comments threads on LCO wouldn’t load when I decided to check in just after noon, so I went to the Disqus website & their server “can’t be found.”

Did a quick net search & indeed they are part of the whole mess:

Websites that went down b/c of this morning’s DDoS attack include:

• Twitter
• SoundCloud
• Spotify
• Netflix
• Reddit
• Disqus
• PayPal

…per http://heavy.com/news/2016/10/ddos-attack-twitter-why-down-cyberattacks-east-coast-hacker-russian/

Also see (has map showing affected areas): http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/10/21/cyber-attack-takes-down-east-coast-netflix-spotify-twitter/92507806/

clearlake fool
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clearlake fool
7 years ago

some of the DOWN sites
does not include LIVEFYRE but they down also

Gazoo
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Gazoo
7 years ago

This site gave me the ” no server found” message at 7 am 1/2 hour later all was well

Eurekajim
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Eurekajim
7 years ago
Reply to  Gazoo

I was surprised My internet didn’t go down, I’m usually the first to go.

judi
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judi
7 years ago

thank you kym. now my level of frustration is dissipating. i just tried my financial inst. site, and they, too, are feeling the frustration for me.

all anyone has to do to wipe out the hu-man virus would be to blow up all satellites that bing our life forces and very essence….
take out the satellites and knock out signals to cell phones, internet, tv, radio…everything we now use to communicate.

hell, maybe a few yrs after that we will start to become civilized once again…

or we could start living like “lord of the flies”

Henchman Of Justice
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Henchman Of Justice
7 years ago
Reply to  judi

Music to HOJ’s ears, full on techno destruction…..

Henchman Of Justice
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Henchman Of Justice
7 years ago
Reply to  judi

The attacks come days after Assange said that the United States was attempting to cut him off from the outside world while he sits barricaded in Ecuador’s embassy in London by removing his internet access. The Ecuadorean government confirmed WikiLeaks’ claim that Assange’s internet connection was cut off, citing interference in the U.S. presidential election as the reason behind removal of access.

Response:

Question – Who believes in censorship?

Answer: Gubbamint at all levels, crony journalists, bloggers, etc….cyber censoring……the shift from paper fallacies to digital fallacies……gubbamint trying to craft a way out of constitutional obligations…..using tech as the prop, the tool of deceit…..

SMH
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SMH
7 years ago

sounds like a good start, especially with disqus down…on noes, whatever will we do!!!?!?!?!

Lame
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Lame
7 years ago

I can’t get into Pinterest. The app says it’s experiencing a hiccup and when I try to go to the website it says server not found.

Taurus Balzhoff
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Taurus Balzhoff
7 years ago

Wow, no twitter. Aw shiiiiiiiit!

Brad
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Brad
7 years ago

Get used to it. This is a preview of cyber terrorism and the war against it to come.

Henchman Of Justice
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Henchman Of Justice
7 years ago
Reply to  Brad

Perpetrated too by the very gubbamint we live under….so many lies we are told justify a full takedown of America.

Jackie
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Jackie
7 years ago

My netflex worked. Hope they can’t get bank info

Susan
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Susan
7 years ago

Two of my most used genealogy sites were unavailable this morning, but are working this evening.

J
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J
7 years ago

I still can’t get onto one of my online shops and it’s freakin me out!

Henchman Of Justice
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Henchman Of Justice
7 years ago

Humans need a good slobberknocking…..do we really need or want all this tech, afterall, most tech is crap at the consumer level.

If hacking fucks with propagandists and their websites,

Then so goddamned be it with great relief and joyous behavior.

Evil voices and literary works deserve black space…….

Veterans friend
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Veterans friend
7 years ago

Was unable to use a credit card…
And I do see this happening more in the future. We have become very dependent on the cyber world.