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Read The Story Behind Why The Internet Was Down Last Friday. by emyblingz: 12:49pm On Oct 24, 2016
[b]A[/b]round 7:00 AM Monday, Eastern Time (ET) (12:00 PM Monday, in Nigeria) last Friday, people started noticing that they couldn’t access websites including me websites like Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit, and other frequently-visited sites. That’s because the DDoS attack targeted Dyn Inc., the company that manages web traffic for the aforementioned websites. The first wave of attacks was primarily targeted at those in the East coast of the United States, but subsequent attacks were much more global in nature.
Botnets are one of the most sophisticated methods of cyber crime. Cyber criminals use botnets for a wide range of activities, such as sending spam messages, spreading viruses, launching denial-of-service attacks and supporting illegal websites. The main goal of carrying out such an attack is for financial gain, which is usually proportional to the size of the botnet.
Although the service outage was mitigated within hours, not only did this cause immense confusion and inconvenience to end-users, but it showed the increasing strength of these types of cyber-attacks. So the question is “Who was behind the attacks?”
Well, long story short, we don’t know yet. The US Department of Homeland Security is currently investigating. But we know that these attacks were created READMORE......http://emyblingz.com/read-the-story-behind-why-the-internet-was-down-last-friday-2/

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