DDos and DNS attacks in America

[Etschell]

Man this aint good.

[GradyPhilpott]

I read about it, but haven't experienced anything except a database error here about a half hour ago. I doubt the two are connected.

At least two successive waves of online attacks blocked multiple major websites Friday, at times making it impossible for many users on the East Coast to access Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr and Reddit.

The first attacks appear to have begun around 7:10 am Friday, then resolved towards 9:30 am, but then a fresh wave began.

The cause was a large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against Internet performance company Dyn that blocked user access to many popular sites standstill.

Dyn reported the sites going down at around 11:10 a.m. UTC, or roughly 7:10 a.m. ET, posting on its website that it "began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure."

In an update posted at 8:45 a.m. ET, the company confirmed the attack, noting that "this attack is mainly impacting US East and is impacting Managed DNS customers in this region. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue."

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the Department of Homeland Security was “monitoring the situation" but that “at this point I don’t have any information about who may be responsible for this malicious activity.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2...tter/92507806/

[azguy]

The bad guys are getting ready for election day

[Knappo 1307]

Originally Posted by azguy

The bad guys are getting ready for election day

I voted Wednesday.....

[doubleroll]

Wow! A few sites I visited had issues this morning.


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[imperio]

Glad this forum isn't affected

[77T]

Originally Posted by Knappo 1307

I voted Wednesday.....

Any attacks won't be at the endpoints where you voted, but at the County servers that are networked into your State's election center run by your Secretary of State's office.

If their target is the Presidential tally, they must swing key precincts in some States to move Electoral College numbers into the column they wish to help.

While it's possible, it's not as simple as a DDOS attack. They have become so simple to launch, there are over 100,000 of them per week in some form or another. But usually not on this scale. You can order one on a foe for as little as a bitcoin on some dark sites...