ITS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!
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Quite Possibly the Biggest HACK in U.S. History is goin down...NOW!!
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SalamiAttack
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What’s Going On With the Internet Today?
For more than two hours on Friday morning, much of the web seemed to grind to a halt—or at least slow to dial-up speed—for many users in the United States.
More than a dozen major websites experienced outages and other technical problems, according to user reports and the web-tracking site downdetector.com. They included The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, and others.
How was it possible to take down all those sites at once?
Someone attacked the architecture that held them together—the domain-name system, or DNS, the technical network that redirects users from easy-to-remember addresses like theatlantic.com to a company’s actual web servers. The assault took the form of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) on one of the major companies that provides other companies access to DNS. A DDoS attack is one in which an attacker floods sites “with so much junk traffic that it can no longer serve legitimate visitors,” as the security researcher Brian Krebs put it in a blog post Friday morning.
Dyn, a leading DNS provider, confirmed that it experienced a global denial-of-service attack on its “Managed DNS” infrastructure, causing service interruptions across the internet for people on the East Coast. “We have been aggressively mitigating the DDoS attack against our infrastructure,” Scott Hilton, a vice president at Dyn said in a statement provided by a spokesman. The issues had been mostly resolved by 9:20 a.m. Eastern Time, just over two hours after they first reported problems, he said. (Amazon also experienced problems with its hosting services, CNBC reported, but the company has not confirmed them.)
If it seems like there have been more of these sorts of outages lately, it’s because there have. “Recently, some of the major companies that provide the basic infrastructure that makes the Internet work have seen an increase in DDoS attacks against them,” the security technologist Bruce Schneier wrote in a blog post in September. “Moreover, they have seen a certain profile of attacks. These attacks are significantly larger than the ones they're used to seeing. They last longer. They're more sophisticated. And they look like probing.”
“Probing” refers to a specially calibrated kind of attack, one that’s designed to take advantage of an individual website’s precise security weaknesses. “We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses,” Schneier wrote.
The stakes of such an attack—and the possibility of a state actor—seem especially high in the United States, given the extent of alleged outside tampering with the approaching presidential election.
In September, Krebs, the security researcher, also suffered a massive DDoS attack on his blog. It was so large, and so much bigger than historically comparable attacks, that internet-infrastructure company Akamai told him it could no longer host his blog pro bono, as it had for four years. (A spokesman for Akamai said none of its customers were affected by Friday’s attack.)
When his blog came back online, he attributed the assault to “super-empowered individuals who have been quietly building extremely potent cyber weapons with transnational reach.” He believes that someone harnessed a vast number of digitally connected “internet of things” devices—“mainly routers, IP cameras, and digital video recorders”—to make DDoS attacks of unprecedented size. Many of these devices have weak security in the first place, and some even have hard-coded and unchangeable passwords.
He compared a successful DDoS attack to a kind of censorship that the web can’t route around. “It's hard to imagine a stronger form of censorship than these DDoS attacks because if nobody wants to [host your website,] then that's pretty effective censorship,” he told Ars Technica.
In the wake of that hack, Schneier argued that the U.S. government must regulate the internet of things or face DDoS-ing botnets of dangerous size. Many attacks are carried out by malicious bots, which are responsible for a huge proportion of overall web traffic anyway.
“DDoS mitigation firms simply did not count on the size of these attacks increasing so quickly overnight,” Krebs wrote on Friday, “and are now scrambling to secure far greater capacity to handle much larger attacks concurrently.”
Even before the attack on Krebs’s site, Akamai reported the largest DDoS attack ever measured on its routed network earlier this year. “We also saw more web application and DDoS attacks than ever before, a trend that shows no sign of reversing,” Akamai wrote in a 2016 security report.
Repeat DDoS attacks are now “the norm,” Akamai says. Websites that sustained such attacks in the second quarter of the year experienced not one or two strikes, but an average of 27 such attacks. Akamai says it saw a 129 percent increase in DDoS attacks in the second quarter of 2016 compared with the same period in the year before.
These statistics are sobering. Friday morning’s attack essentially prevented American web users from Norfolk to New York, and from Cleveland to Connecticut, from reading the news, checking their bank accounts, or filing new code for their employer. News sites, local governments, and the presidential campaigns themselves should consider what could happen if an even larger attack were to transpire on election day.
For more than two hours on Friday morning, much of the web seemed to grind to a halt—or at least slow to dial-up speed—for many users in the United States.
More than a dozen major websites experienced outages and other technical problems, according to user reports and the web-tracking site downdetector.com. They included The New York Times, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, GitHub, Etsy, Tumblr, Spotify, PayPal, Verizon, Comcast, EA, the Playstation network, and others.
How was it possible to take down all those sites at once?
Someone attacked the architecture that held them together—the domain-name system, or DNS, the technical network that redirects users from easy-to-remember addresses like theatlantic.com to a company’s actual web servers. The assault took the form of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) on one of the major companies that provides other companies access to DNS. A DDoS attack is one in which an attacker floods sites “with so much junk traffic that it can no longer serve legitimate visitors,” as the security researcher Brian Krebs put it in a blog post Friday morning.
Dyn, a leading DNS provider, confirmed that it experienced a global denial-of-service attack on its “Managed DNS” infrastructure, causing service interruptions across the internet for people on the East Coast. “We have been aggressively mitigating the DDoS attack against our infrastructure,” Scott Hilton, a vice president at Dyn said in a statement provided by a spokesman. The issues had been mostly resolved by 9:20 a.m. Eastern Time, just over two hours after they first reported problems, he said. (Amazon also experienced problems with its hosting services, CNBC reported, but the company has not confirmed them.)
If it seems like there have been more of these sorts of outages lately, it’s because there have. “Recently, some of the major companies that provide the basic infrastructure that makes the Internet work have seen an increase in DDoS attacks against them,” the security technologist Bruce Schneier wrote in a blog post in September. “Moreover, they have seen a certain profile of attacks. These attacks are significantly larger than the ones they're used to seeing. They last longer. They're more sophisticated. And they look like probing.”
“Probing” refers to a specially calibrated kind of attack, one that’s designed to take advantage of an individual website’s precise security weaknesses. “We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses,” Schneier wrote.
The stakes of such an attack—and the possibility of a state actor—seem especially high in the United States, given the extent of alleged outside tampering with the approaching presidential election.
In September, Krebs, the security researcher, also suffered a massive DDoS attack on his blog. It was so large, and so much bigger than historically comparable attacks, that internet-infrastructure company Akamai told him it could no longer host his blog pro bono, as it had for four years. (A spokesman for Akamai said none of its customers were affected by Friday’s attack.)
When his blog came back online, he attributed the assault to “super-empowered individuals who have been quietly building extremely potent cyber weapons with transnational reach.” He believes that someone harnessed a vast number of digitally connected “internet of things” devices—“mainly routers, IP cameras, and digital video recorders”—to make DDoS attacks of unprecedented size. Many of these devices have weak security in the first place, and some even have hard-coded and unchangeable passwords.
He compared a successful DDoS attack to a kind of censorship that the web can’t route around. “It's hard to imagine a stronger form of censorship than these DDoS attacks because if nobody wants to [host your website,] then that's pretty effective censorship,” he told Ars Technica.
In the wake of that hack, Schneier argued that the U.S. government must regulate the internet of things or face DDoS-ing botnets of dangerous size. Many attacks are carried out by malicious bots, which are responsible for a huge proportion of overall web traffic anyway.
“DDoS mitigation firms simply did not count on the size of these attacks increasing so quickly overnight,” Krebs wrote on Friday, “and are now scrambling to secure far greater capacity to handle much larger attacks concurrently.”
Even before the attack on Krebs’s site, Akamai reported the largest DDoS attack ever measured on its routed network earlier this year. “We also saw more web application and DDoS attacks than ever before, a trend that shows no sign of reversing,” Akamai wrote in a 2016 security report.
Repeat DDoS attacks are now “the norm,” Akamai says. Websites that sustained such attacks in the second quarter of the year experienced not one or two strikes, but an average of 27 such attacks. Akamai says it saw a 129 percent increase in DDoS attacks in the second quarter of 2016 compared with the same period in the year before.
These statistics are sobering. Friday morning’s attack essentially prevented American web users from Norfolk to New York, and from Cleveland to Connecticut, from reading the news, checking their bank accounts, or filing new code for their employer. News sites, local governments, and the presidential campaigns themselves should consider what could happen if an even larger attack were to transpire on election day.
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The biggest us attack in history couldn't phase thecoli. 
You copying and pasting every single website that reported on this? 
What you tryna DDOS your own thread or something?
What you tryna DDOS your own thread or something?
SalamiAttack
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Netflix, PlayStation Network, and Twitter down as huge DDoS strike continues
If you’re having trouble getting onto PlayStation Network or watching Luke Cage, that’s probably not Sony’s or Netflix’s fault.
A coordinated cyberattack has hit a large sector of the internet, and that has made services like PlayStation Network, Netflix, and Twitter inaccessible for a significant number of people. Earlier today, a distributed denial-of-service assault hit domain name system (DNS) service Dyn. That is preventing many heavily trafficked sites from loading for people around the world.
That earlier attack subsided for a few hours, but it has returned and is affecting sites that serve millions of users and customers.
THE GOT YA PAYPAL, THEY GOT YA BANK ACCOUNTS/CC INFO
If you’re having trouble getting onto PlayStation Network or watching Luke Cage, that’s probably not Sony’s or Netflix’s fault.
A coordinated cyberattack has hit a large sector of the internet, and that has made services like PlayStation Network, Netflix, and Twitter inaccessible for a significant number of people. Earlier today, a distributed denial-of-service assault hit domain name system (DNS) service Dyn. That is preventing many heavily trafficked sites from loading for people around the world.
That earlier attack subsided for a few hours, but it has returned and is affecting sites that serve millions of users and customers.
THE GOT YA PAYPAL, THEY GOT YA BANK ACCOUNTS/CC INFO
Kingshango
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I love you, you know.
Damn, @Nasty1931 is about to have a full-on, full-body, electronic orgasm.
SalamiAttack
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You copying and pasting every single website that reported on this?
What you tryna DDOS your own thread or something?
YOU KNOW FULL WELL THESE FOOLS AIN'T CLICKING on ANY LINKS, Breh
I'm helping you out
YOU KNOW FULL WELL THESE FOOLS AIN'T CLICKING on ANY LINKS, Breh
I'm helping you out
And this whole time I thought it was my WiFi fukking up
SalamiAttack
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They would be bandits
no they wouldnt, cause that means they'd have to go outside and interact with people....they'd be scared to death lol...
as for the thread: your title is misleading...there is a difference between a ddos attack and a hack....this isnt a hack...
:tellin:Bout to go out looting