This is one reason why I have written how I believe the Internet has to end at some point because of this. If we attack Russia beyond a certain point they will shut our whole internet down. IF they cyber attack us beyond a certain point we will completely shut their Internet down. At this point (at some point) it becomes a nuclear confrontation when thousands of people (accidentally die) on both sides. This is the real danger here. Therefore logically, the Internet at some point has to end in order to maintain our democracy. This is the logical result of all this. We either have a bloody war or we shut down the Internet in the U.S. likely forever if this goes much further now. Otherwise, we give up our democracy to Russia. It's a hard choice to give up our economy and Europe's but the alternative might be a nuclear war with Russia at some point. We either now give up our democracy or our Internet. What a choice! But, it's real as real can be. Do you see the logic?
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October 2016 Dyn cyberattack
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A map of the areas most affected by the attack as of 11:45 a.m. EDT
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| Time | 7:10 a.m.– 9:20 a.m. EDT 11:50 a.m. – 1:11 p.m. EDT 4:00 p.m. -- 6:11 p.m. EDT |
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| Date | October 21, 2016 |
| Location | Europe and North America, especially the Eastern United States |
| Type | Distributed denial-of-service attacks |
| Participants | Unknown |
Contents
Timeline and impact
According to Dyn, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack began at 7:00 a.m. (EDT) and was resolved by 9:20 a.m. However, a second attack was reported at 11:52 a.m. and Internet users began reporting difficulties accessing websites.[3][4] A third attack began in the afternoon, after 4:00 p.m.[5][6] At 6:11 p.m., Dyn reported that they had resolved the issue.[7]Affected websites
Websites affected by the attack include:- Airbnb[8]
- Amazon.com[5]
- Ancestry.com[9][10]
- The A.V. Club[11]
- BBC[10]
- The Boston Globe[8]
- Box[12]
- Business Insider[10]
- CNN[10]
- Comcast[13]
- CrunchBase[10]
- DirecTV[10]
- The Elder Scrolls Online[10][14]
- Electronic Arts[13]
- Etsy[15][8]
- FiveThirtyEight[10]
- Fox News[16]
- The Guardian[16]
- GitHub[13][8]
- Grubhub[17]
- HBO[10]
- Heroku[18]
- HostGator[10]
- iHeartRadio[9][19]
- Imgur[20]
- National Hockey League[10]
- Netflix[10][16]
- The New York Times[13][8]
- Overstock.com[10]
- PayPal[15]
- Pinterest[13][15]
- Pixlr[10]
- PlayStation Network[13]
- Quora[10]
- Reddit[13][9][15]
- Ruby Lane[10]
- RuneScape[9]
- SaneBox[18]
- Seamless[20]
- Shopify[8]
- Slack[20]
- SoundCloud[15][8]
- Squarespace[10]
- Spotify[13][9][15]
- Starbucks[9][19]
- Storify[12]
- Tumblr[13][9]
- Twilio[9][10]
- Twitter[13][9][15][8]
- Verizon Communications[13]
- Visa[21]
- Vox Media[22]
- Walgreens[10]
- The Wall Street Journal[16]
- Wikia[9]
- Wired[12]
- Wix.com[23]
- Yammer[20]
- Yelp[10]
- Zillow[10]
Investigation
White House spokesman Josh Earnest responds on October 21, 2016, the day of the attack
Dyn disclosed that, according to Flashpoint and Akamai, the attack was a botnet coordinated through a large number of Internet of things-enabled (IoT) devices, including cameras, home routers, and baby monitors, that had been infected with Mirai malware. Dyn stated that they were receiving malicious requests from tens of millions of IP addresses.[6][28] Mirai is designed to brute-force the security on an IoT device, allowing it to be then be controlled remotely. Cybersecurity investigator Brian Krebs noted that the source code for Mirai had been released onto the Internet in an open-source manner some weeks prior, which will make the investigation of the perpetrator more difficult.[29] The October 21 attack came just hours after Dyn analyst Doug Madory presented results of research on similar attacks at a network operator conference in Dallas, Texas.[30]
In correspondence with the website Politico, the hacktivist group New World claimed responsibility for the attack in retaliation for Ecuador rescinding internet access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at their embassy in London, where he has been granted asylum.[31] This claim has yet to be confirmed by American officials.[31] WikiLeaks alluded to the attack on Twitter, tweeting "Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point."[32] New World has claimed responsibility in the past for similar attacks targeting sites like BBC or ESPN.com.[33]
References
- The Associated Press (2016-10-21). "Cyberattacks on Key Internet Firm Disrupt Internet Services". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
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