Massive Cyber Attack Cripples Large Internet Sites
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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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
Ah, so that’s what’s going on.
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/
some of the DOWN sites
does not include LIVEFYRE but they down also
More info here> http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835
This site gave me the ” no server found” message at 7 am 1/2 hour later all was well
I was surprised My internet didn’t go down, I’m usually the first to go.
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”
Music to HOJ’s ears, full on techno destruction…..
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…..
sounds like a good start, especially with disqus down…on noes, whatever will we do!!!?!?!?!
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.
Wow, no twitter. Aw shiiiiiiiit!
Get used to it. This is a preview of cyber terrorism and the war against it to come.
Perpetrated too by the very gubbamint we live under….so many lies we are told justify a full takedown of America.
My netflex worked. Hope they can’t get bank info
Two of my most used genealogy sites were unavailable this morning, but are working this evening.
I still can’t get onto one of my online shops and it’s freakin me out!
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…….
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.