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Most peculiar.  I can get to the majority of my daily Web crawl, but both my Web host's email gateway and Twitter seem to be down hard.  Is somebody trying to break the 'Net today?
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Internet under attack

Date: 2016-10-21 10:44 pm (UTC)
thnidu: Discworld Death. Text: YES, I KNOW WHO YOU WERE... (DEATH)
From: [personal profile] thnidu
Yes! There have been some massive DDoS attacks:

From WIRED
What We Know About Friday’s Massive East Coast Internet Outage

Friday morning is prime time for some casual news reading, tweeting, and general Internet browsing, but you may have had some trouble accessing your usual sites and services this morning and throughout the day, from Spotify and Reddit to the New York Times and even good ol’ WIRED.com. For that, you can thank a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) that took down a big chunk of the Internet for most of the Eastern seaboard.

This morning’s attack started around 7 am ET and was aimed at Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company headquartered in New Hampshire. That first bout was resolved after about two hours; a second attack began just before noon. Dyn reported a third wave of attacks a little after 4 pm ET. In all cases, traffic to Dyn’s Internet directory servers throughout the US—primarily on the East Coast but later on the opposite end of the country as well—was stopped by a flood of malicious requests from tens of millions of IP addresses disrupting the system. Late in the day, Dyn described the events as a “very sophisticated and complex attack.” Still ongoing, the situation is a definite reminder of the fragility of the web, and the power of the forces that aim to disrupt it.

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Date: 2016-10-21 07:32 pm (UTC)
seawasp: (Poisonous&Venomous)
From: [personal profile] seawasp
Yes. Massive DDoS attack on one of the major DNS providers.
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