Widespread DDoS Attacks Across The States

General news News 10/22/2016

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While yesterday started out as just another Friday, it turned for the worse in no time. In case you could not access PlayStation Network or Twitter, it was because the services were unaccessible!

The DDoS attacks mainly aimed Dyn. They could only resist the attacks for a short time, as the second round knocked them flat out.

The target was Dyn’s DNS infrastructure, which helps people to access sites easier. If you wanted to see twitter.com, you don’t have to remember the IP address. Multiple sites were affected yesterday from Twitter, Reddit, to Soundcloud (which was accessible without a problem in Europe, though), and Spotify.

PlayStation Network also hit the ground – Destiny, FIFA 17, or the just released Battlefield 1 was unplayable online, and this service outage didn’t get limited to the East Cost of the United States, but Europe was also influenced as well.

At the moment, everything is working just fine.

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