[eye30]

Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, Soundcloud, PayPal and several other sites have been affected by three web attacks.

All the firms are customers of a company called Dyn, which they use to help users find their sites online.

In quick succession on Friday, Dyn was swamped by two attacks that made the sites of its customers hard to reach.

It is not clear who is behind the attack or why Dyn has been hit. The FBI and US Department of Homeland Security said they were investigating.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37728015

[Shambles]

Time we ditched the DNS system then, and returned to using IP addresses only.

[Doggie 1]

Did Not Start and Intellectual Property in my world.   

[The Gonz]

If we went IP only then we'd have to do something about Dynamic IP address allocation, or you'd have to do your own looking each session to find out where your target site is.

[Shambles]

Yeppers, and it would be sooooo much more fun when we switch to IPV6


Nevermind http://www.i30ownersclub.com, you would only have to remember 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334. Doddle.

[CraigB]

Explained in detail here Hacked Cameras, DVRs Powered Today?s Massive Internet Outage ? Krebs on Security

This is how it played out on Dyn's end Dyn, Inc. Status - DDoS Attack Against Dyn Managed DNS

[beerman]

Wondered why I had trouble getting into this site....

[CraigB]

Wondered why I had trouble getting into this site....

It shouldn't have affected you mostly a US problem Dyn, Inc. Status - Update Regarding DDoS Event Against Dyn Managed DNS on October 21, 2016

Some more reports on the event NewWorldHacking & Anonymous behind DDoS attack on Dyn DNS serviceSecurity Affairs apparently this attack was just a test/dry run for a much bigger attack coming to be aimed at Russia

[beerman]

Sometimes subtle humour goes undetected......

[CraigB]

Sometimes subtle humour goes undetected......