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[sazzy]

someone clearly stepped on a wire and unplugged the internet.

 

[pitchfork]

https://youtu.be/68I3j2luW64

 

[Fewr]

https://www.ft.com/content/be17ead1-293c-3c73-82a6-02ed7b116ed2

An enormous cyberattack has disrupted traffic to hundreds of websites including Twitter, the Financial Times, Spotify, Reddit, eBay and the New York Times, particularly for internet users on the east coast of the United States.

The attack was targeted at a New Hampshire-based company called Dyn, a service that translates human-readable names for websites (such as ft.com) into an IP address that the internet understands. It’s the internet’s phone directory.

 

[Lucky Seven]

Florida is safe, thankfully

 

[wenis]

More updates from http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/21/13357344/ddos-attack-websites-shut-down?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter[TheVerge]

The affected websites included Twitter, Spotify, and Vox Media (parent company of The Verge). In a note posted earlier this morning, Dyn, which is responsible for routing traffic requests for several sites, confirmed it was under attack:

Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available.
In a more recent update, the company said the problems were mainly affecting customers on the United States East Coast. "Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue," the company wrote.

 

[Dishwalla]

Don't see any issues here in Virginia, just tried Twitter, Reddit, and eBay and they all worked.

 

[thecouncil]

I'm in that very red part of the map.
I was having problems with Netflix and Twitter this morning and things were slow otherwise.

I thought it was a virus.

Phew.

Everything works now though.

 

[MrCunningham]

I was never crazy, and the internet is AH-OH-KAY for me. But then again, I am no where near those red spots on the map.

 

[many places]

GAF's up. All is right with the world.

 

[dave is ok]

I'm in Boston and working fine.

Guess they fixed it somewhat.

 

[The Illiterati]

Last night I went on Netflix and the whole site was strange. The recommendations didn't make sense and the Netflix Originals were things like Sons of Anarchy. A refresh changed it.

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Link?

This one claims to be behind it but go and guess if he is:

https://twitter.com/OMGITSDEDSEC

reported all over major service providers though (AWS, Heroku, GitHub etc.)

edit: there it is: https://www.ft.com/content/be17ead1-...6-02ed7b116ed2

 

[victreeb3l]

Yeah I couldnt get Twitter to load new tweets for like 15 minutes.

 

[DarkKyo]

This Sombra ARG is really getting out of hand now.

 

[Corto]

It's your weak old cyber fault.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

For the record: The Internet being messed up isn't mutually exclusive with you being crazy

 

[GamerJM]

It's fine today but it was fucking up yesterday and the day before irregularly. Which also pissed me off because it wasn't working right as the Switch was revealed and I had to watch it on my phone.

 

[richiek]

I noticed reddit going down a few times, but that's it.

 

[Palette Swap]

I don't know if there's a cyber warfare ramping up or if it's just that this fuckery is more reported on, but last month, French web hosting provider OVH got hit by an unprecedented DDoS attack. This was apparently done by a botnet of 150,000 IP cameras. They're not very well known, but these guys are a pretty major hosting service.

 

[Muskieratboi]

Honestly, we've been warned this was coming for a while now.

This is just the beginning.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html

 

[psynergylover]

Its Russia and their cyber! To arms!

400 lbs men! ASSEMBLE!!!!

 

[Spiral Insanity]

Honestly, we've been warned this was coming for a while now.

This is just the beginning.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html

This seems like the setup for a fascinating espionage thriller.

 

[Deleted member 80556]

More updates from http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/21/13357344/ddos-attack-websites-shut-down?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter[TheVerge]

Is it just me, or is it getting worse? Compared to the picture in the first page.

 

[bengraven]

Fuck yes bring on the outages. I could go for a day with our VOIP down. I like my coworkers enough to chill and chat/play cards for 8 hours.

 

[Media]

Honestly, we've been warned this was coming for a while now.

This is just the beginning.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html

This is troubling. Shutting down a countries Internet would be a good first step in launching an attack of some sort.

 

[killamajig]

Skynet?

Skynet.

Skynet

Skynet!

 

[Oriel]

Russia DDOSing America in order to stop Trump tweeting his usual fantasies that's giving Hillary a boost in the polls.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

This seems like the setup for a fascinating espionage thriller.

The plot of Live Free or Die Hard was to launch a cyber attack to disrupt the infrastructure. This attack targeted a company in New Hampshire. The state motto of New Hampshire? "LIVE FREE OR DIE"

 

[Androidsleeps]

Cybering spiraling out of control

 

[Sub_Level]

Honestly fuck Russia?

 

[ZeroMaverick]

My home internet is not working at all, but my mobile connection is just fine. I wonder if it's related to this attack.

 

[itwasTuesday]

The plot of Live Free or Die Hard was to launch a cyber attack to disrupt the infrastructure. This attack targeted a company in New Hampshire. The state motto of New Hampshire? "LIVE FREE OR DIE"

Justin long and Kevin Smith will save us all

 

[Nevasleep]

Honestly fuck Russia?

Might not be Russia. IOT and other botnets are way more likely.

Zendesk (a cloud ticketing system) got pretty flakey.

 

[Futureman]

I'm pretty much right in the middle of that red blob and haven't noticed any internet issues today. LONG LIVE THE INTERNET.

 

[Mahonay]

My internet keeps getting fucky for a few minutes every now and then. This is annoying.

 

[RionaaM]

GAF and Google Play Music are working fine for me. I'll be able to survive this last day of the work week.

 

[chadskin]

Twitter is dead. RIP.

 

[Spiral Insanity]

EA servers are down as well.

 

[maquiladora]

@jimsciutto

Just in: US “looking at all possible scenarios incl cyber activity” as it investigates massive #DDoSAttack on NE US this am -US official

.

#400lbcyber

 

[takriel]

oh come on, right when I wanted to watch the new season of Black Mirror on Netflix. fuck.

 

[Mahonay]

Someone get Trump's 10 year old son on the phone. Cyber King, we need you.

 

[Spiritwalker]

I live in Norway and Twitter is down for me.

 

[Hystzen]

In the meantime I got a family who needs the Internet right away. We'll head out Californee Way and see what we can find.

 

[Phu]

Is this still going on? Because I'm right in the thick of that map and all the sites in the OP work fine. All my usual sites seem fine as well.

 

[strafer]

Twitter is broken as hell right now.

 

[Demoskinos]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand stuff is broken again.

 

[Spiral Insanity]

Man, this is bad.

 

[ReAxion]

all quiet on the western front

 

[NESpowerhouse]

Yeah, GAF's desktop site was down for about half the day yesterday, and I don't think it was from Nintendo Switch news.

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

In the UK and Twitter is down for me.