What we know about friday’s massive east coast internet outage

[darkbeaver]

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FRIDAY’S MASSIVE EAST COAST INTERNET OUTAGE

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• COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY

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 7am 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. In both cases, traffic to Dyn’s Internet directory servers on the East Coast of the United States was stopped by a flood of malicious requests disrupting the system. 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.
I bet Hillary and Obama will blame Russia for this!

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[petros]

I bet Hillary and Obama will blame Russia for this!

Harper did it.

 

[eh1eh]

Harper did it.

Nope, Obama.

 

[Curious Cdn]

The Chinese. They got mad, this afternoon when an American warship entered the Pacific Ocean ... "territorial waters", you know.

 

[lone wolf]

Ebay caught me swiping photos.... :lol:

 

[MHz]

I'm in the dark on this one. Surely the UN will catch the flak on this as they now control the 'net'. This is like the creation of the FED, first thing that happened was a decade long depression in between 2 World Wars. This could be a lot worse but at least the net will be up. No sense controlling the world if you can't let the news out.

 

[Ludlow]

it's them ferkin canadian gooses shyttin on evathin nasty vermin

 

[darkbeaver]

Bad infrastructure down there, it could be the geese.

 

[Danbones]

looks like the bla bla american hackers missed the Russians by a couple continents
must have been us army hacks
they can now goose sheep in the baraks

 

[personal touch]

All in fun,sounds like fun

What's that song?
When the lights went out in Georgia?
Computers are the same,flaws in the network,but if you are a conspirists junkie you may think otherwise, I like others believe all this shutdown is computer glitches and tomorrow will be better day
Yawn

 

[tay]

Harper did it.

Harpers the great economist as he told us, not the great computer guy so he didn't do it.......

 

[spaminator]

Cyberattacks disrupt Twitter, Netflix, PlayStation Network, others
Raphael Satter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, October 21, 2016 09:33 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, October 21, 2016 09:49 PM EDT
LONDON — Cyberattacks on a key Internet firm repeatedly disrupted the availability of popular websites across the United States on Friday, according to analysts and company officials.
The attack had knock-on effects for users trying to access popular websites from across America, Canada and even in Europe. Among the sites apparently affected were Twitter, Netflix, and Sony’s PlayStation Network.
Netflix Canada said it was experiencing issues streaming on some devices and was working to resolve the problem.
The White House described the disruption as malicious.
Manchester, N.H.-based Dyn Inc. said its server infrastructure was hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks, which work by overwhelming targeted machines with junk data traffic.
The level of disruption was difficult to gauge, but Dyn provides Internet traffic management and optimization services to some of the biggest names on the web, including Twitter, Netflix and Visa. Critically, Dyn provides domain name services, which translate the human-readable addresses such as “twitter.com” into an online route for browsers and applications.
Steve Grobman, chief technology officer at Intel Security, compared an outage at a domain name services company to tearing up a map or turning off GPS before driving to the department store. “It doesn’t matter that the store is fully open or operational if you have no idea how to get there,” he said in a telephone interview.
Jason Read, founder of the Internet performance monitoring firm CloudHarmony, owned by Gartner Inc., said his company tracked a half-hour-long disruption early Friday in which roughly one in two end users would have found it impossible to access various websites from the East Coast. A second attack later in the day caused disruption to the East and West Coasts as well as impacting some users in Europe.
“It’s been pretty busy for those guys,” Read said. “We’ve been monitoring Dyn for years and this is by far the worst outage event that we’ve observed.”
Read said Dyn provides services to some six per cent of America’s Fortune 500 companies. That means a lot of disruption.
“It impacted quite a few users,” he said of the morning’s attack.
A full list of affected companies wasn’t immediately available, but major sites including Twitter and coder hangout Github said they briefly experienced problems earlier Friday.
For James Norton, the former deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security who now teaches on cybersecurity policy at Johns Hopkins University, the incident was an example of how attacks on key junctures in the network can yield massive disruption.
“I think you can see how fragile the Internet network actually is,” he said.
Dyn said in a series of statements that it first became aware of the attack around 7:00 a.m. local time and that services were restored about two hours later. A little more than two hours later, the company said it was working to mitigate another attack. A Dyn spokesman didn’t respond to questions seeking further information about the online onslaught.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is monitoring the situation, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Friday. He said he had no information about who may be behind the disruption.
Security experts have recently expressed concern over increasing power of denial-of-service attacks following high-profile electronic assaults against investigative journalist Brian Krebs and French Internet service provider OVH .
In a widely shared essay titled “Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet,” respected security expert Bruce Schneier said last month that major Internet infrastructure companies were seeing a series of worrying denial-of-service attacks.
“Someone is extensively testing the core defensive capabilities of the companies that provide critical Internet services,” he said.
— With files from The Canadian Press
Cyberattacks disrupt Twitter, Netflix, PlayStation Network, others | News | Tech

 

[Curious Cdn]

Bad infrastructure down there, it could be the geese.

Someone tripped over an extension cord and unplugged it.

 

[Danbones]

right the nsa knows the color of your underwear
but can't catch a hacker to save it's life?
because they are the hackers

 

[personal touch]

Cyberattacks disrupt Twitter, Netflix, PlayStation Network, others
Raphael Satter THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, October 21, 2016 09:33 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, October 21, 2016 09:49 PM EDT
LONDON — Cyberattacks on a key Internet firm repeatedly disrupted the availability of popular websites across the United States on Friday, according to analysts and company officials.
The attack had knock-on effects for users trying to access popular websites from across America, Canada and even in Europe. Among the sites apparently affected were Twitter, Netflix, and Sony’s PlayStation Network.
Netflix Canada said it was experiencing issues streaming on some devices and was working to resolve the problem.
The White House described the disruption as malicious.
Manchester, N.H.-based Dyn Inc. said its server infrastructure was hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks, which work by overwhelming targeted machines with junk data traffic.
The level of disruption was difficult to gauge, but Dyn provides Internet traffic management and optimization services to some of the biggest names on the web, including Twitter, Netflix and Visa. Critically, Dyn provides domain name services, which translate the human-readable addresses such as “twitter.com” into an online route for browsers and applications.
Steve Grobman, chief technology officer at Intel Security, compared an outage at a domain name services company to tearing up a map or turning off GPS before driving to the department store. “It doesn’t matter that the store is fully open or operational if you have no idea how to get there,” he said in a telephone interview.
Jason Read, founder of the Internet performance monitoring firm CloudHarmony, owned by Gartner Inc., said his company tracked a half-hour-long disruption early Friday in which roughly one in two end users would have found it impossible to access various websites from the East Coast. A second attack later in the day caused disruption to the East and West Coasts as well as impacting some users in Europe.
“It’s been pretty busy for those guys,” Read said. “We’ve been monitoring Dyn for years and this is by far the worst outage event that we’ve observed.”
Read said Dyn provides services to some six per cent of America’s Fortune 500 companies. That means a lot of disruption.
“It impacted quite a few users,” he said of the morning’s attack.
A full list of affected companies wasn’t immediately available, but major sites including Twitter and coder hangout Github said they briefly experienced problems earlier Friday.
For James Norton, the former deputy secretary at the Department of Homeland Security who now teaches on cybersecurity policy at Johns Hopkins University, the incident was an example of how attacks on key junctures in the network can yield massive disruption.
“I think you can see how fragile the Internet network actually is,” he said.
Dyn said in a series of statements that it first became aware of the attack around 7:00 a.m. local time and that services were restored about two hours later. A little more than two hours later, the company said it was working to mitigate another attack. A Dyn spokesman didn’t respond to questions seeking further information about the online onslaught.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is monitoring the situation, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Friday. He said he had no information about who may be behind the disruption.
Security experts have recently expressed concern over increasing power of denial-of-service attacks following high-profile electronic assaults against investigative journalist Brian Krebs and French Internet service provider OVH .
In a widely shared essay titled “Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet,” respected security expert Bruce Schneier said last month that major Internet infrastructure companies were seeing a series of worrying denial-of-service attacks.
“Someone is extensively testing the core defensive capabilities of the companies that provide critical Internet services,” he said.
— With files from The Canadian Press
Cyberattacks disrupt Twitter, Netflix, PlayStation Network, others | News | Tech

We sure are fortunate they haven't "attacked" this web site,very thankful

Modern day information wars,can't worry about that ****

 

[gerryh]

right the nsa knows the color of your underwear

riiiiight, because the 30,000 employees of the nsa have nothing better to do than spy on 300 million americans every day.




How fu cking stupid can you be?

 

[petros]

That stupid.

 

[MHz]

How fu cking stupid can you be?

Are you setting the 'bar'?

 

[darkbeaver]

riiiiight, because the 30,000 employees of the nsa have nothing better to do than spy on 300 million americans every day.How fu cking stupid can you be?

In truth backed by centuries of historical collapse the NSAs biggest concern bar none is the American citizen. You should not ask about stupid.

 

[personal touch]

That stupid.

Did you expect anything different on this website?

Anyone have some good vanilla whiskey recipes to share

I don't think NASA or anyone else is interested in knowing the colour of my underwater,I just do not feel that important in the scheme of things.
I have had hackers as far back as I recall,I am sure they are bored and disappointed ,but they cannot help themselves,I cannot cure their boring lives
if NASA knows the colour of my underwear then changes must be advanced upon,like real soon