anyone else affected by today's DDOS attack?

purbeast0

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My buddy just emailed me about that. I only really care about github but I can still access that. I hope I can access it when I get home though because I have some work I have to do at home.

Thankfully AWS wasn't on that list either since that would be bad for the backend of our app too.
 

FeuerFrei

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Well the US did cede control of the internets at the beginning of October. I guess this international coalition idea is fail.
 

DaveSimmons

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I was trying to grab a script from github for work, and thought the author had pulled it until a Google search told me about the DDoS.

Oh well, plenty of other things to work on, like my ATOT postcount.... ;)
 

cbrunny

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Oct 12, 2007
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i can't access CNN, reddit, imgur, quora, github and a few other sites big big sites. supposedly someone is hammering DNS servers and it is affecting a lot of people.

https://www.hackread.com/ddos-attack-dns-sites-suffer-outage/

uhh.....

Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available. This attack is mainly impacting US East and is impacting Managed DNS customer in this region. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue.

https://twitter.com/Dyn/status/789444349998268416

Damn, those hackers are getting good. 11:10 UTC doesn't happen for another 5 and a half hours. Hacking across SpaceTime. Incredible.

Either that or they meant AM... one seems more likely than the other.
 

brianmanahan

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I was trying to grab a script from github for work, and thought the author had pulled it until a Google search told me about the DDoS.

Oh well, plenty of other things to work on, like my ATOT postcount.... ;)

remember what is truly important!
 

master_shake_

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this is what happens when fridges toilets thermostats and any other major kitchen appliances are connected via the IOT.

probably a massive samsung/frigidaire botnet.