Denial of Service Attack on internet in U.S. Friday 10/21/2016

[misscrystal]

There has been a massive denial of service attack on the intenet today and it apparently is still happening.

I copied and pasted some of the aritcle about it from Wired.com:

TIME OF PUBLICATION: 1:04 PM.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FRIDAY’S MASSIVE EA-ST 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 Ea-st 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,

[misscrystal]

And from the New York Times article on it:

"Russia would be my first guess.”

"It is too early to determine who was behind Friday’s attacks, but it is this type of DDoS attack that has election officials concerned. They are worried that an attack could keep citizens from submitting votes.

[topaz_muse]

Heard about it on the news and was slightly relieved that it wasn’t my laptop going on the fritz…again. Had an extremely difficult time searching an online shopping site. It took forever to access a simple search of which the entire search phrase took about a minute and a half just to register after I typed it.

[fonthaunt]

Ah, thanks. I didn’t get a chance to be on nearly as much as usual today, but that may explain some of the Survey Monkey outages and some unusual DNS issues I ran into trying to help my poor mother install Chrome. 🙂

[djgodknows]

@fonthaut Have you tried Waterfox? The only TRUE 64bit browser based on Firefox. Increases performance will decreasing lag.