DDOS Attack On Internet Infrastructure

Posted by brideoflinux on Oct 21, 2016 10:31 PM EDT
IT Pro; By Christine Hall
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There's been another big DDOS attack, this time against the infrastructure of the Internet. It began at 7:10 a.m. EDT today against Dyn, a major DNS host, and was brought under control at 9:36 a.m. Many of the sites affected are among the most trafficked on the web, and included CNN, Twitter, PayPal, Pinterest and Reddit to name a few. The developer community was also touched, as GitHub was also made unreachable.

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