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[Plumbob]

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.

It depends on which sites you connect to, not just your location. I'm in California and github is down.

 

[enewtabie]

Whats the deal. Dyn says it was fixed and anybody could easily do it. Is this big league or some kids messing with the web.

 

[Mahonay]

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

Yesterday actually didn't have much to do with this.

GAF went down EXACTLY when the Nintendo Switch stream hit. And then it went down again when the Red Deed Redemption 2 trailer hit. It was just two huge news items hitting within an hour of each other.

 

[Spiral Insanity]

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

That was from Nintendo Switch news. Unrelated to this.

 

[tbm24]

This might explain why I couldn't open a NYT article this morning. Drove me nuts for a bit.

 

[Reversed]

Both imgur and twitter aren't loading at the moment. D:

 

[Nipo]

Can't we just disconnect Russia from the internet? Do they contribute anything useful?

 

[chadskin]

Now would be a good time to send the nukes.

 

[VeryGooster]

NJ. Twitter is up but a load of images won't load basically.

 

[v1lla21]

That's it, disconnecting myself.

 

[Burt]

You can give police and intelligence agencies unlimited unconstitutional domestic power, let billionaires buy our elections, turn our prisons into moneymills, and gut our educational system for corporate tax breaks, but you fuck with our Netflix and America's ready to revolt.

Begun, the Twitter Wars have.

 

[IronRinn]

Twitter is totally down for me again, in NJ.

 

[clemenx]

It seems to be messed up again?

 

[Dishwalla]

Yeah Twitter is down here(I don't even use Twitter). Netflix is slow but it works.

 

[Hugstable]

I'm in California and Twitter isn't working for me either. Netflix also seems screwy

 

[Barajas_201]

How could spooky evil Russians enter here?

 

[marrec]

Twitter's deffo having problems for me now, shits not loading right.

 

[Spiral Insanity]

This is huge. I'm also unable to do any work. Damn.. is this the future of terrorism?

 

[Jay Shadow]

No twitter here for me but everything else I've done so far has been fine.

 

[brandonh83]

Twitter is all kindsa fucked up for me.

 

[TheExhaustedWalrus]

No twitter or PSN in TN

 

[LiK]

Working fine here in MA at work and on my phone.

 

[DrFunk]

yup, twitter is back down

 

[takriel]

netflix down for anyone else?

 

[water_wendi]

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

lol

 

[eggandI]

Twitter still down for me and Internet seems sluggish still :/

 

[BiggNife]

Things were busted in the morning, then everything was fine, now everything is fucked again. Twitter's barely loading, Box (which I use for work) isn't loading.

fuck this is going to be an everyday thing now isn't it

 

[LiK]

The article was updated. OP should update as well.

Update 9:45 a.m. ET: Dyn, a large domain name service company, reports that it was attacked by a distributed denial-of-service attack around 7 a.m. ET, shutting down access to a number of popular internet sites. As of 9:20 a.m. ET, it had restored service to normal.

Dyn is one of several companies that essentially maintains a master list of websites, translating “CNN.com” into the string of numbers that actually directs readers to the news network’s servers. It appears they were flooded with targeted traffic by an unknown party with the intention of shutting down access to these sites.

 

[Chaplain]

Seems like it is a cyberattack:

Sites across the internet had problems on Friday morning following a cyberattack on a major internet management company. On Friday morning, Dyn — a company that hosts domain name systems — announced it has been the subject of a cyberattack that caused major problems for numerous websites. People reported issues with Twitter, Spotify, SoundCloud, Vox Media sites, Airbnb and numerous other sites.

The White House is aware of the attacks, and the Department of Homeland Security is taking a close look at the "malicious activity," a CBS News reporter said on Twitter.

“The internet continues to rely on protocols and infrastructure designed before cyber security was an issue. DDoS, especially with the rise of insecure IOT devices, will continue to plague our organizations," Ben Johnson, a chief security strategist for Carbon Black, told Mashable. "Sadly, what we are seeing is only the beginning in terms of large scale botnets and disproportionate damage done.”

Source

 

[hobblygobbly]

I have access to Twitter since I'm not from the U.S (although the CSS isn't loading), saw Reuters tweet this:

BREAKING: U.S. government probing whether east coast internet attack was a 'criminal act' - official

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/789505386546167808

 

[Simply Sami]

Twitter and PSN down in U.K for me.

 

[Reversed]

Imgur is back up.

How could reuters tweet that, though?

 

[Joe]

State sponsored or not, America needs to start getting very serious about cyber attacks.

 

[DavidDesu]

Twitter and PSN down in U.K for me.

Yeah I've got patchy mobile signal in work and thought I just kept losing signal when trying to check Twitter, but Neogaf is alright.. wow. Pretty crazy if this is 2 hours or so later and still having problems.

A good taster for when the end of the world comes, lol.

 

[Saganator]

Explains why Salesforce has been so damn slow for me today

 

[Fuu]

Twitter is messed up for me, not down but very broken. Brazil.

 

[jose1]

I'm not on the east coast, but eBay's homepage is missing all of the usual recommendations. Just has a search bar and a welcome to eBay box. Weird

 

[Syphon Filter]

Twitter is messed up for me, not down but very broken. Brazil.

Yea I can see all the html 5 layout lol.

 

[BiggNife]

Imgur is back up.

How could reuters tweet that, though?

Twitter isn't down for everyone. For me I can see tweets just fine but images aren't loading.

 

[Christhor]

And I was just about to watch some stuff on netflix

 

[Chaplain]

State sponsored or not, America needs to start getting very serious about cyber attacks.

I agree. However, I find it strange that the same month that America handed over control of the internet to a Chinese company that we could be having a huge cyber attack.

US hands over control of internet on schedule - despite last-ditch protests

Even against a backdrop of political opposition, the US government has gone ahead and passed responsibility for the internet's naming system to ICANN.

Isn't this the first time something like this has happened on such a large scale?

 

[Lonestar]

Yeah, I first notice something was wrong when twitter didn't load. But the 2-3 main sites have been fine.

Did run into a serious slowdown webpage when I tried to track a package thru UPS. It eventually loaded in, though.

 

[Futureman]

Maybe Twitter won't come back up.

 

[jamieson87]

Just Eat is down in the UK.

I want my dinner dammit.

 

[Fried Food]

If I can't continue playingBF when I get home from work, Donna body gonna get a hurt a real bad. I'll beat China up.

 

[SyNapSe]

I'm not on the east coast, but eBay's homepage is missing all of the usual recommendations. Just has a search bar and a welcome to eBay box. Weird

They put up the simplest page possible hoping people can get through. Box.com has a very simple empty white page with a login button right now too.

 

[Spiral Insanity]

This thread should be bigger.

 

[OverBlood 3]

Just Eat is down in the UK.

I want my dinner dammit.

They've gone too far this time.

 

[marrec]

This thread should be bigger.

It would be but everyone's internet is slowing down

 

[Kayhan]

This thread should be bigger.

With the internet slowing down priorities kick in and no one has time to reopen 21 porn tabs.