US internet users suffering under DDoS attacks on key DNS provider

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A series of denial of service attacks on a major DNS provider spanning all of Friday have caused major issues across the internet, with outages of some of the largest sites and services experienced across about half of the U.S. -- and now the Department of Homeland Security is getting involved.




Starting early Friday, assailants started a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on DNS provider Dyn's servers. Major sites like The Verge, HBO Now, CNN, Imgur, Paypal, and Reddit are all affected to some extent.

A new wave of attacks have brought down the websites for the New York Times, CNN, Netflix, Twitter, and the PlayStation Network, among many others. Amazon is experiencing some outages as well, but at this time it is not clear if the problems stem from the DDoS attack on Dyn.

Starting at about 11 a.m. eastern time, the attacks abated somewhat, and were mitigated by Dyn's countermeasures. However, at 12:20 p.m. eastern time, the attackers renewed the assault, expanding the outages beyond just England and the east coast of the U.S. to a large portion of California and Texas.

"Dyn received a global DDoS attack on our Managed DNS infrastructure in the east coast of the United States," Dyn executive vice president of products Scott Hilton said in a statement Friday morning. "We have been aggressively mitigating the DDoS attack against our infrastructure."

AppleInsider has learned that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring the situation" and the agency is "investigating all potential causes" of the outages.

Dyn provides domain name services (DNS), resolving plain site names, like www.appleinsider.com to IP addresses that are required for content delivery. A sufficiently large DDoS attack on DNS servers for websites prevent requests to the website from completing.

The attack is aggravated by users continuing to hammer refresh following an unsuccessful load of a webpage.

The vector of attack is not yet known, with hackers recently having commandeered a network of surveillance cameras to perform a DDoS attack. Reasons for the assault, or the perpetrators are also not yet known.
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  • Reply 1 of 31
    volcanvolcan Posts: 1,799member
    ... the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring the situation" and the is "investigating all potential causes" of the outages.
    The DNS system is rigged by the corrupt liberal media. 
    edited October 2016 singularityzroger73rbonnerviclauyycboltsfan17jony0dasanman69applepieguy
  • Reply 2 of 31
    coolfactorcoolfactor Posts: 2,243member
    Any affected site's IT team should take a lesson from this. While DNS may be a distributed system, and while there may be special DDoS systems to respond to such attacks, spreading your DNS configuration across *multiple DNS providers* is a sure-proof way to minimize any attack. Having authoritative nameservers at multiple providers. Easy to set up and manage, and gives tremendous redundancy.
    magman1979P-DogNCairbubble
  • Reply 3 of 31
    jmgregory1jmgregory1 Posts: 474member
    volcan said:
    ... the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring the situation" and the is "investigating all potential causes" of the outages.
    The DNS system is rigged by the corrupt liberal media. 
    I think it's clear, because I believe that which The Donald says as gospel, that this is all Hillary's fault.
    viclauyycgilly33jony0applepieguy
  • Reply 4 of 31
    volcanvolcan Posts: 1,799member
    Any affected site's IT team should take a lesson from this. While DNS may be a distributed system, and while there may be special DDoS systems to respond to such attacks, spreading your DNS configuration across *multiple DNS providers* is a sure-proof way to minimize any attack. Having authoritative nameservers at multiple providers. Easy to set up and manage, and gives tremendous redundancy.
    Not that easy to prevent unless you have some way to scrub or filter malformed packets before they reach the authoritative DNS server or recursive servers.
  • Reply 5 of 31
    hexclockhexclock Posts: 1,254member
    I assumed it was the Russians. 
    anton zuykov
  • Reply 6 of 31
    SpamSandwichSpamSandwich Posts: 33,407member
    The attacks must be directed by Obama or Clinton to prevent the widespread dissemination of stuff like this:

    Hacked emails show Clinton pushed for charity meeting in Morocco
    “She created this mess and she knows it.” —Huma Abedin

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hacked-emails-show-clinton-pushed-for-charity-meeting-in-morocco/
    edited October 2016
  • Reply 7 of 31
    randominternetpersonrandominternetperson Posts: 3,089member

    "AppleInsider has learned that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring the situation" and the is "investigating all potential causes" of the outages."

    If you're going to quote something shouldn't you reference where the quotes came from.  "AppleInsider has learned" sounds impressive, but "According to the New York Times [or whatever]..." would likely be more accurate. 

    SpamSandwichsingularityking editor the grategilly33anton zuykovafrodri
  • Reply 8 of 31
    SpamSandwichSpamSandwich Posts: 33,407member

    "AppleInsider has learned that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring the situation" and the is "investigating all potential causes" of the outages."

    If you're going to quote something shouldn't you reference where the quotes came from.  "AppleInsider has learned" sounds impressive, but "According to the New York Times [or whatever]..." would likely be more accurate. 

    This may be the source:  https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/ongoing-cyber-attack-hits-twitter-amazon-other-top-websites

    And you're right, there's no excuse for not crediting sourced material with either a name or a link.
    edited October 2016 gilly33cornchip
  • Reply 9 of 31
    onlyhopeonlyhope Posts: 39member
    Cyber Terrorists should be dealt with the same as any other Terrorists - find them, neutralism them with prejudice.
    palominemagman1979gilly33jony0anton zuykov
  • Reply 10 of 31
    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele Posts: 6,861administrator

    "AppleInsider has learned that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring the situation" and the is "investigating all potential causes" of the outages."

    If you're going to quote something shouldn't you reference where the quotes came from.  "AppleInsider has learned" sounds impressive, but "According to the New York Times [or whatever]..." would likely be more accurate. 

    This may be the source:  https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/ongoing-cyber-attack-hits-twitter-amazon-other-top-websites

    And you're right, there's no excuse for not crediting sourced material with either a name or a link.
    I'm five miles away from the headquarters, I contacted the DHS directly.
    edited October 2016 gatorguyfastasleepviclauyycmacsince1988randominternetpersonanton zuykov
  • Reply 11 of 31
    sockrolidsockrolid Posts: 2,789member
    Thanks Trump.
    1st
  • Reply 12 of 31
    rbonnerrbonner Posts: 635member
    Crooked DHS, SAD!
  • Reply 13 of 31
    flaneurflaneur Posts: 4,526member
    SpamSandwich said:
    The attacks must be directed by Obama or Clinton to prevent the widespread dissemination of stuff like this:

    Hacked emails show Clinton pushed for charity meeting in Morocco
    “She created this mess and she knows it.” —Huma Abedin

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hacked-emails-show-clinton-pushed-for-charity-meeting-in-morocco/
    More likely Trump campaign operatives (Bossie, Stone, O'Keefe, etc.) who will try to connect it to the Clinton campaign.
    applepieguy
  • Reply 14 of 31
    viclauyycviclauyyc Posts: 849member
    hexclock said:
    I assumed it was the Russians. 
    Donald's best friend?
    anton zuykovapplepieguy
  • Reply 15 of 31
    libertyforalllibertyforall Posts: 1,418member
    And to think the original design of the internet was to ensure that connectivity could be routed away from a bomb blasted section, inherent resiliency in design needs to be a core design consideration into the future.  
  • Reply 16 of 31
    randominternetpersonrandominternetperson Posts: 3,089member
    Mike Wuerthele said:

    "AppleInsider has learned that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring the situation" and the is "investigating all potential causes" of the outages."

    If you're going to quote something shouldn't you reference where the quotes came from.  "AppleInsider has learned" sounds impressive, but "According to the New York Times [or whatever]..." would likely be more accurate. 

    This may be the source:  https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/ongoing-cyber-attack-hits-twitter-amazon-other-top-websites

    And you're right, there's no excuse for not crediting sourced material with either a name or a link.
    I'm five miles away from the headquarters, I contacted the DHS directly.
    Seriously? I assumed you were kidding. I take back my snark, if they were real first hand quotes.
    Mike Wuerthele
  • Reply 17 of 31
    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele Posts: 6,861administrator
    randominternetperson said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:

    "AppleInsider has learned that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring the situation" and the is "investigating all potential causes" of the outages."

    If you're going to quote something shouldn't you reference where the quotes came from.  "AppleInsider has learned" sounds impressive, but "According to the New York Times [or whatever]..." would likely be more accurate. 

    This may be the source:  https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/ongoing-cyber-attack-hits-twitter-amazon-other-top-websites

    And you're right, there's no excuse for not crediting sourced material with either a name or a link.
    I'm five miles away from the headquarters, I contacted the DHS directly.
    Seriously? I assumed you were kidding. I take back my snark, if they were real first hand quotes.
    Yup, first hand. Everybody around here knows somebody...

    re: snark retraction: No blood, no foul, you know? Don't worry about it.
  • Reply 18 of 31
    macxpressmacxpress Posts: 5,808member
    hexclock said:
    I assumed it was the Russians. 
    Or it could be someone laying on their bed who weighs 400 pounds.

    -Donald Trump
    edited October 2016 applepieguysingularity
  • Reply 19 of 31
    gilly33gilly33 Posts: 434member
    onlyhope said:
    Cyber Terrorists should be dealt with the same as any other Terrorists - find them, neutralism them with prejudice.
    I would like to add with extreme prejudice. Bunch of jack offs. Probably working with some government body.
    jony0
  • Reply 20 of 31
    Rayz2016Rayz2016 Posts: 6,957member

    "AppleInsider has learned that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is "monitoring the situation" and the is "investigating all potential causes" of the outages."

    If you're going to quote something shouldn't you reference where the quotes came from.  "AppleInsider has learned" sounds impressive, but "According to the New York Times [or whatever]..." would likely be more accurate. 

    Agreed. If this was a site operated by real journalists then they would have credited the original source. 

    *edit*

    My mistake. It appears someone did actually do some investigating. 
    edited October 2016 coolfactor
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