HHS

DDoS Attack Blamed for Massive Outages

A massive distributed denial-of-service attack that began early Oct. 21 and continued in waves into the evening is suspected to be the cause of the temporary outages of many popular websites, ...
PC Gamer

The CrowdStrike IT outage is pretty grim but let's hope it's not as bad as the infamous Dyn DDoS attack, Facebook mega-crash, and Rogers network disaster

This one looks as bad as they come and there have been some truly massive IT problems in recent years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
ExtremeTech

Internet struck by waves of outages as massive DDoS attack affects major services

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Newsweek

Quora Question: What Motivates Hackers’ DDoS Attacks?

Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the ...
WTHR

Wave of attacks causes internet outages in U.S.

(NBC NEWS ) - If you noticed problems with the internet today, you're not alone. Twitter, Spotify and Reddit were inaccessible for some time Friday morning, and major websites across the East Coast ...
SDxCentral

Oracle to Acquire DNS Provider Dyn

Oracle announced today it will acquire Dyn, a cloud-based domain name service (DNS) provider that translates web URLs into IP addresses. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Dyn made ...
SDxCentral

AWS Activates a DDoS Shield & Gives Users X-Ray Vision

Protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is now activated in Amazon Web Services (AWS) by default, CTO Werner Vogels announced today at Amazon re:Invent. The new service is ...