http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835 You can still get to Wordforge even though the internet is being shut down by hackers. Image: Getty Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to assume that the two situations are related. Update 12:28 PM EST: Dyn says it is investigating yet another attack, causing the same massive outages experienced this morning. Based on emails from Gizmodo readers, this new wave of attacks seems to be affecting the West Coast of the United States and Europe. It’s so far unclear how the two attacks are related, but the outages are very similar. In order to understand how one DDoS attack could take out so many websites, you have to understand how Domain Name Servers (DNS) work. Basically, they act as the Internet’s phone book and facilitate your request to go to a certain webpage and make sure you are taken to the right place. If the DNS provider that handles requests for Twitter is down, well, good luck getting to Twitter. Some websites are coming back for some users, but it doesn’t look like the problem is fully resolved. View attachment upload_2016-10-21_13-53-50.gif Today's Brutal DDoS Attack Is the Beginning of a Bleak Future This morning a ton of websites and services, including Spotify and Twitter, were unreachable… Read more Dyn posted this update on its website: “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.” Here’s a list of websites that readers have told us they are having trouble accessing: ActBlue Basecamp Big cartel Box Business Insider CNN Cleveland.com Etsy Github Grubhub Guardian.co.uk HBO Now Iheart.com (iHeartRadio) Imgur Intercom Intercom.com Okta PayPal People.com Pinterest Playstation Network Recode Reddit Seamless Spotify Squarespace Customer Sites Starbucks rewards/gift cards Storify.com The Verge Twillo Twitter Urbandictionary.com (lol) Weebly Wired.com Wix Customer Sites Yammer Yelp Zendesk.com Zoho CRM Credit Karma Eventbrite Netflix NHL.com Fox News Disqus Shopify Soundcloud Atom.io Ancersty.com ConstantContact Indeed.com New York Times Weather.com Mashable WSJ.com time.com xbox.com dailynews.com Wikia donorschoose.org Wufoo.com Genonebiology.com BBC Elder Scrolls Online Eve Online PagerDuty Kayak youneedabudget.com Speed Test Freshbooks Braintree Blue Host Qualtrics SBNation Salsify.com Zillow.com nimbleschedule.com Here’s an internet outage map from DownDetector as of 12:46 PM EST: View attachment upload_2016-10-21_13-53-50.gif Here’s a gif that shows the internet outage at 9:00 AM EST versus 12:30 PM EST: View attachment upload_2016-10-21_13-53-50.gif At the time of publication Dyn said that it was still dealing with the problem. What websites are down for you? Send a tip to william.turton@gizmodo.com. Update 9:05 AM EST: Judging by emails from readers, this problem seems to be getting worse. Update 9:43 AM EST: Dyn says the issue has been resolved. Update 12:19 PM EST: Dyn says the issue is resolved, but multiple readers are messaging me to say they’re still having trouble accessing websites. Update 12:25pm EST: It’s happening again. (see above)
And it's been how many days since Obama announced he'd have the CIA launch cyberattacks against Russia?
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