Massive Cyber Attack

You know all those cool "free" apps. Well, duh.

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Originally Posted by DFBrews

Insert modern Version of a Cold War poster.

Cyber is the next Cold War instead of practicing hiding under our school desks we will be practicing cell phone OPSEC

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Please turn your phone off and wait 30 seconds before restarting.

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Originally Posted by brutal

You know all those cool "free" apps. Well, duh.

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Originally Posted by foxtrot

Lets see, not long ago foxtrot pointed out the internet isn't invulnerable and large regions could be subject to temporary or permanent blackouts if they find vulnerabilities in the DNS system.

This small attack? Primarily against a managed DNS system, DDOS using the "internet of things". Still not an exploited vulnerability, but it took out major sites regionally for a significant time. And this is just small potatoes to what can and likely will be coming down the pipes... eventually.

PPS: Even if DNS lookups are overloaded you can come here directly by IP address if you keep it written down somewhere... (or "favorite" it)

http://204.144.128.249/

Unlikely that we will see anything affect us for awhile though. The risk goes up over time because this is the money shot vulnerability... you don't take out a site, you take out portions of the net.

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nothing like this could ever happen in America [Flower]

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Originally Posted by CavSct1983

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It's OK because Roy and Moss trusted Jen with the Internet. Besides that everyone now knows that all IT problems can be fixed by turning it off and back on again. [Coffee]

But will it kill more people than Hurricane Matthew?

I for one could use a healthy break from being connected by cable plugged into the back of my neck to the Interwebz.

So glad other people are familiar with The IT Crowd.

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Originally Posted by cstone

It's OK because Roy and Moss trusted Jen with the Internet. Besides that everyone now knows that all IT problems can be fixed by turning it off and back on again. [Coffee]

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Don't forget to clear your cache first. :)