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Lots of sites are down today

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See this report:
Half the internet is down today: Here's (probably) why

Here's a list of some major players that are down or have been impacted:
Twitter
Reddit
Spotify
Esty
Iheart.com (iHeartRadio)
Github
PayPal
Wired.com
People.com
Urbandictionary.com
Pinterest
Grubhub
Starbucks rewards/gift cards
Storify.com
CNN

Netflix, Spotify, Twitter
 
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Wow, thanks for sharing. Kinda crazy stuff like this happens to such large companies! This is probably costing them some serious profit :)

-Alex
 
Same stuff , different day .....

Wonder when it will be most of the net .
 
Netflix is definitely having issues, haven't experienced any problems with Reddit or Spotify today though.
 
Pain in the butt since I have 2 people wanting to pay for some laser stuff. One said he paid but I can't check and the other wants to pay but I don't think he is going to be able to yet.

I don't know if this has anything to do with the Russia thing but man that's not a good road to travel down. I can only imagine how terrible we could make things for each other. Don't like thinking about it.
 
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When Blizzard perm banned a bunch of its Overwatch players for cheating they suffered several DDoS attacks like this that knocked out all Blizzard games off and on. It was right around when Legion came out
 
Pman said:
Pain in the butt since I have 2 people wanting to pay for some laser stuff. One said he paid but I can't check and the other wants to pay but I don't think he is going to be able to yet.

I don't know if this has anything to do with the Russia thing but man that's not a good road to travel down. I can only imagine how terrible we could make things for each other. Don't like thinking about it.
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Russia thing?? :confused:
 
This whole Wikileaks thing with /Hillary and other stuff and we were supposedly going to do something back to them cyber wise.
I was just commenting on how it sounds like we are going to get into this tit for tat stuff in cyberspace.
 
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This whole Wikileaks thing with /Hillary and other stuff and we were supposedly going to do something back to them cyber wise.
I was just commenting on how it sounds like we are going to get into this tit for tat stuff in cyberspace.
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Doesn't seem like this would be the sort of attack you'd do in that case. This is a DDoS focusing on DynDNS, which is causing other sites to be disrupted due to them relying on DynDNS for upstream DNS.

So unless some government service or some such relies on DynDNS (doubtful...) then I don't see how it'd be related.

Unfortunately mitigating a DDoS or identifying the attackers is no easy task, at least depending on the magnitude and type of attack. Curious to see how much traffic there was at the peak, that's always interesting.
 
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^I would have to agree with diachi on this one Pman. I don't think this would be an attack which comes from Russia(althought you can't rule it out of course) but it doesn't seem like Russia would target these kinds of websites, more focus would be put onto attacking systems related to the election. This may just be a group of people who wanted to disrupt some website due to their own goals or maybe to just cause chaos?

Who knows!

-Alex
 
I didn't expect it to be Russia, it was just on my mind after they did a report on it a few nights ago:) We should all expect this kind of stuff to get worse and worse though.
I was just able to get into Palpal so it looks like they are up again. Yay!
 
Yeah, I've been trying to get on Photobucket most of the day and couldn't, but it seems to be ok now.
Back to our scheduled programming, for now at least. :yh:
 
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Yeah, I've been trying to get on Photobucket most of the day and couldn't, but it seems to be ok now.
Back to our scheduled programming, for now at least. :yh:
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Seems the DDoS attacks went on and off a total of three times so far.

Some more info/background here: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twitter-spotify-reddit/

And more: http://thehackernews.com/2016/10/dyn-dns-ddos.html

Be interesting to see if this one tops out the recent record of 1Tbps. To put that in perspective, that's 116GiB/s or 29x 2 hour long HD movies per second.
 
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Thanks for the links diachi, I learned a bit about what these attacks are. :yh:
 
I wonder if this wasn't done by North Korea's elite cyber hacking divsion which is located in China from what I read. Is it really Russia every time you gotta wonder?
 
Yesterday, internet was down for most of the isp subscribers late in the day. This outage seemed wide spread on the level 3 outage map. I can't find any new reports about it. Most are 2 weeks old. Cell data was working but landline was not. Odd.
 
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