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(Drudge) Major internet problems reported after cyberattack
Mashable ^ | 10/21/2016 | Emma Hinchliffe

Posted on 10/21/2016 8:14:30 AM PDT by Freedom56v2

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To: bushwon

Hillary and her minions are all about spinning false naratives


21 posted on 10/21/2016 8:36:56 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( I miss Reagan !)
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To: bushwon

The Rats are the only ones with anything to gain by disrupting Social Media Networks. They are so stupid. They thought cutting Assange off would work. Now they think they can cut off Veritas and Wikileaks. They might want to do a little homework and discover WHY DARPA invented the web tubes.


22 posted on 10/21/2016 8:37:57 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Red Badger

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TEOTWAWKI = Day of Trumpets, Tishri 1, 6024 (2024)

“The governments of men become the governments of Yehova.”
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23 posted on 10/21/2016 8:38:02 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: bushwon

Oh noze- call the internationalists who now own the internets! Where’s the service desk?

China? Iran? Moscow?


24 posted on 10/21/2016 8:39:11 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: bushwon

If this was a DDOS attack they know where it came from. Denial of service attacks by nature are flooding a target with junk data. It is easy to tell where the large amount of junk data came from...


25 posted on 10/21/2016 8:39:54 AM PDT by lancium
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To: All

https://www.pingdom.com/livemap
Watch the internet battle global
Kind of cool


26 posted on 10/21/2016 8:41:26 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: batterycommander

It’s just not the way the internet works. It’s like saying that the CEO of Wells Fargo resigning is going to impact the public’s ability to get cash out of ATM’s. There is simply no connection between the two. There are other significant ramifications of the transfer, this just isn’t one of them.


27 posted on 10/21/2016 8:42:07 AM PDT by Hurricane Andrew (There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.)
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To: Red Badger

“One of the first things you do in a war is destroy the enemy’s communications”

Assange O’Keefe Drudge and wikileaks is the enemy of who...hmmm. Twitter shadow banning must have got just too massive a project

Someone has implemented a war plan


28 posted on 10/21/2016 8:42:15 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Hurricane Andrew

It’s a matter of control, or lack thereof. Chaos abounds when there is no control. DDOS abounds, systems are threatened. Imagine the chaos when the banks close. You gotta think outside the box. Read a couple of books on anarchy.


29 posted on 10/21/2016 8:47:59 AM PDT by batterycommander (Surrounded? Stay clammed and call for artillery. USNA 65)
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To: lancium

From a twitter comment...they pasted this:

Writing on its website, Dyn said that starting at about 7 a.m. EST, the company “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.”

DDoS stands for “distributed denial of service” and is a common tactic used by hackers to take down internet-connected servers. In a DDoS attack, malicious users build a network of computers that then send massive amounts of traffic to particular servers with the goal of denying the use of those servers to other users, according to Cisco.

The source of the attack Friday was not immediately clear.

“Hackers have no rules. One of the problems we have is that they move much faster than cyber-defenders. A DDoS attack can be launched in literally seconds, or under an hour if it’s coordinated by a larger group,” Steven Morgan, founder of the research firm Cybersecurity Ventures, told Mashable. “Right now, we’re in the phase of figuring out where did this come from.”

This cyberattack comes at a time of heightened tension, with the US claiming it will retaliate against Russia after accusing the country of orchestrating hacks of the Democratic National Committee.

“The internet continues to rely on protocols and infrastructure designed before cyber security was an issue. DDoS, especially with the rise of insecure IOT devices, will continue to plague our organizations,” Ben Johnson, a chief security strategist for Carbon Black, told Mashable. “Sadly, what we are seeing is only the beginning in terms of large scale botnets and disproportionate damage done.”

The attack Friday mainly affected the eastern United States, Dyn said.

Hacker News first noted the “massive Dyn DNS outage.” The site said that if sites reported as down are working for some users, those users’ machines have likely cached the DNS response for those sites.


30 posted on 10/21/2016 8:59:34 AM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: dp0622

He’s doing a JFK in reverse.............


31 posted on 10/21/2016 9:00:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Whatever happened to Craig Livingstone?..............)
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To: nevermorelenore

Hillary and her minions are all about spinning false naratives


Yup—

and could also be to keep other news like obama/hillary emails off the top of the news/front page—

gotta line up the sunday show talking points...


32 posted on 10/21/2016 9:05:43 AM PDT by Freedom56v2
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To: Starboard

ping
33 posted on 10/21/2016 9:08:44 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Zathras

A better site:
http://map.norsecorp.com/#/
Its like watching WW3


35 posted on 10/21/2016 9:12:43 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: bushwon

The US blames Russia... More like US using shadow groups to attack itself.


36 posted on 10/21/2016 9:15:32 AM PDT by dragonblustar
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To: bushwon

apparently we did not make enough noise for them to do anything

***************

Well, they are there for themselves, not us. They don’t care what we think. Its their club, and we’re not in it.


37 posted on 10/21/2016 9:16:38 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: lancium
A proper DDOS attacking comes from a huge network of machines targeting a small number of machines with massive amounts of data. The distributed nature makes it very hard to play "whack a mole" against an individual perpetrator. If it aimed at specific ports, you can add filters in your router to exclude the attack target.
38 posted on 10/21/2016 9:33:17 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: All
You guys know they are doing this on purpose, right? I mean, reddit and Twitter are out primary ways to disseminate information.

This absolutely chilling.

39 posted on 10/21/2016 9:35:50 AM PDT by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: bushwon

Looks like this global internet idea is really working /s


40 posted on 10/21/2016 9:46:40 AM PDT by HollyB
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