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Possible cyberattack against US internet infrastructure

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Just outside DC near a pretty well known DoD building and internet is absolutely fine here. People in the office looked at me like i was crazy when i said things were a problem elsewhere. Twitter, spotify, etc all loading like normal
 
BiggNife said:
Yeah I don't think a lot of people realize how big of a deal this is

Over 30 huge sites are down (http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835) and I don't think we've seen a cyberattack on this level towards the public before
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The main worrying thing to me is twitter. Shutting off social media could be a huge deal in the right circumstances. We can all bemoan how a large part of social media is garbage but real talk social media is really vital to communication now days. Shutting off that line of communication could be real bad.
 
Nipo said:
Just outside DC near a pretty well known DoD building and internet is absolutely fine here. People in the office looked at me like i was crazy when i said things were a problem elsewhere. Twitter, spotify, etc all loading like normal
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Yea I'm in Pittsburgh and everything is alright, Twitter is hiccuping sometimes but otherwise is running a-ok.
 
Should be a wake up call for a lot of people now when it comes to cyber attacks. If Russia is behind this or China there might be increased of tensions and possibly sanctions.
 
Shit is down again, they must have launched a second attack.

Russia needs to be punished. Too bad we can't hack into their dead hand system and disable their launch capabilities.
 
Is this one of the most brazen cyberattacks in history? It's one thing to try to hack the FBI or something, another to do a widespread simultaneous attack on many very public sites that the general public will absolutely notice
 
Zero-ELEC said:
That explains it. This is huge, no?
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I guess this would one of the largest cyber attacks or not the largest in terms of affected users in the world I would think.

I guarantee that this might affect some policy changes at least in the behind the scenes now. Like I said if one country is considered responsible than things might get really ugly; nothing like war though I think. Going after the public, whomever did this, perhaps wanted a reaction and wanted to send a message.
 
Pretty misleading, no? It doesn't look like Twitter was down, a single DNS provider was. No different in scale than the DDOS attacks on single gaming infrastructures like Sony/Blizzard/etc, and comparatively much less of a problem given the ease of switching to other DNS services.

Edit: Unless this was affecting some sort of internal DNS used by a ton of companies for some reason, but that seems unlikely. Everything I've read points to this being a ISP DNS service.
 
Demoskinos said:
The main worrying thing to me is twitter. Shutting off social media could be a huge deal in the right circumstances. We can all bemoan how a large part of social media is garbage but real talk social media is really vital to communication now days. Shutting off that line of communication could be real bad.
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shuttiing down facebook and twitter at specific times could be used as an attempt to shunt the spread of news that a party wants to keep from getting viral

it would never work though
 
Explains my DNS problems, switched from my ISP to google DNS, same issues

I guess I've rebooted my entire home network for nothing.
 
This is obviously a test run of something bigger down the line. There have been other record breaking attacks recently as well - the biggest one topping 1.2 Tbps
 
I see someone practicing again for Election Day fun. Seems whoever it is, has been hitting soft targets the past couple months. Wondering if they are seeing how things react and adjust.

It is crazy the amount of money I have had to dump into security at our company this year.
 
spindoc said:
This is obviously a test run of something bigger down the line. There have been other record breaking attacks recently as well - the biggest one topping 1.2 Tbps
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This is how I feel. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has the capability to shut the worlds, or most of the worlds internet down or something in a few years. Heck it might even be possible now.
 
acksman said:
I see someone practicing again for Election Day fun. Seems whoever it is, has been hitting soft targets the past couple months. Wondering if they are seeing how things react and adjust.

It is crazy the amount of money I have had to dump into security at our company this year.
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Agreed. We're (newsorg) using this as a trial-run right now ourselves and it's exposing a lot of holes for us.
 
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