Major DDos Attack on DYN

Discussion in 'Science, Technology & Car Chat' started by xaznxryux, Oct 21, 2016.

  1. xaznxryux

    xaznxryux Well-Known Member

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    This is a pretty significant attack today and it affected a number of big name companies

    Twitter/Reddit etc, whoever is using DYN as their public DNS provider. And to a lesser extend, US-East-1 of Amazon Web Services is also affected

    My company was kind of affected as well including our third party monitoring devices

    http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835

    The East coast area (where I am in) got hit the hardest apparently

    https://dailydot.relaymedia.com/amp/layer8/dyn-ddos-twitter-reddit-east-coast/

    Any techies or sys admins here who would love to discuss this :)