Massive Cyber Attack

[Dave_L]

I'm surprised I haven't seen a thread about this. Talking to some tech people and they said its a fairly big deal?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2...tter/92507806/

SAN FRANCISCO — At least two successive waves of online attacks blocked multiple major websites Friday, at times making it impossible for many users on the East Coast to access Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit and other sites.
The first attacks appear to have begun around 7:10 a.m. Friday, then resolved towards 9:30 a.m., but then a fresh wave began.
The cause was a large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against Internet performance company Dyn that blocked user access to many popular sites. Such DDoS attacks have a long history online but may be increasing in numbers with the recent release of easy-to-use computer code to create them.

[CS1983]

The war is real, friend.

[buffalobo]

Cyber attacks have been getting more frequent, larger and more malicious. We don't hear about most of them. Perpetrators will get around to electrical grid eventually.

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[ray1970]

I'm glad it was the Russians and not the democrats. The dems might have shut this site down.

[Zundfolge]

Not the Russians, its Anonymous.

They're pissed because one of their own got arrested for DDOSing a children's hospital.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...t-charged-ove/

[Irving]

If a third party candidate wins, we can look at Anonymous for the hack.

[Kraven251]

If a third party candidate wins, we can look at Anonymous for the hack.

Part of me would be ok with that...the other part would be pissed off.

[sellersm]

If Trump wins, they'll blame Russia for the hack, and move to nullify the election.

FIFY.

[fitz19d]

Black hat operation to make the public more accepting of physical responses to online crime. (I kid but..)

[Gman]

The war is real, friend.

^THIS