Massive Global DDoS Attack Against Twitter, etc.

by | Oct 21, 2016

Not that this has anything to do with the election or anything.

Update: From TechDirt: “‘Nice Internet You’ve Got There… You Wouldn’t Want Something To Happen To It…’

“Last month, we wrote about Bruce Schneier’s warning that certain unknown parties were carefully testing ways to take down the internet. They were doing carefully configured DDoS attacks, testing core internet infrastructure, focusing on key DNS servers. And, of course, we’ve also been talking about the rise of truly massive DDoS attacks, thanks to poorly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and ancient, unpatched bugs.

“That all came to a head this morning when large chunks of the internet went down for about two hours, thanks to a massive DDoS attack targeting managed DNS provider Dyn. Most of the down sites are back (I’m still having trouble reaching Twitter), but it was pretty widespread, and lots of big name sites all went down. Just check out this screenshot from Downdetector showing the outages on a bunch of sites…”

Read the rest here.

Update II: That’s weird.

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