- Github, SoundCloud and PayPal also reported to be down
- Some of Amazon’s cloud services also believed to have been hit
- Outage appeared to be primarily affecting web users on the US East Coast
- Second wave of attacks began around 1PM ET
- Department of Homeland Security ‘investigating all potential causes’
- The ongoing interruption of its network resulting from a DDoS attack
- DDoS attacks are a primitive form of hacking using botnets – networks of computers that hackers bring under their control
A massive co-ordinated series of cyber attacks has forced hundreds of major websites from Amazon to Twitter offline across the globe – and WikiLeaks believes its supporters were responsible.
It urged its backers to ‘stop taking down the US internet’, saying ‘Mr Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing’.
It then tweeted: ‘The Obama administration should not have attempted to misuse its instruments of state to stop criticism of its ruling party candidate.’
The Ecuadorian government switched off Assange’s internet service Sunday after he released another tranche of emails showing the contents of a speech given by Hillary Clinton to Goldman Sachs.
WikiLeaks accused John Kerry and the US Government of asking Ecuador to shut down Assange’s internet connection, but the South American country denied it came under any pressure from the US or any other government.
I just heard a hot shot Cyber Security guy say that these attacks are coming from the gangs that lock up your domain and then send you a ransom demand. According to this guy they were getting real close to bringing the ring down so they launched an attack. He flat out denied it had anything to do with WikiLeaks but what the heck, who knows who is paying this guy.
@BBrad ~ doesn’t really matter if these hackers were w/ WikiLeaks, Assange just got some great press & also scared the crap out of a lot of IT Security pukes at the same time
… from what I know about the attacks, they were Denial of Service attacks …. pretty simple … just overload the system w/ traffic
…. besides, all is well ….. the UN’s in charge of AlGore’s Amazing Internet* now!
(‘AlGore’s Amazing Internet’ is a registered trademark)
If that were the case they’d be hitting DC, not the Northeast. We ain’t got shit.
That’s one way to at least get the media to talk about wikileaks.
This was just a shot across their bow. Next one will go up their aft.
https://www.facebook.com/AlpharettaRepublicans?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
Check out this poll!!!!
I dunno, Bad_Brad, that guy sounds like he’s peddling the “inflammatory video” line for somebody. We’ll see if the various MSM blowholes start parroting “ransom gang”, and we get a voxplanation of the evil ransom gangs from some twenty five year old sissy who just googled them thirty minutes ago.
Thirdtwin, After the last couple weeks I’ll never take anything at face value again.
Gwenn, do you have to be on face book to see the poll. I’m just seeing a facebook home page for david hill. Are you talking about that AJC poll which shows the race dead even in GA?
If you get to his home page the poll andresults are there. 588,000 women from coast to coast replied and Trump was at 90%. MSM and polls are all lying. One done on Facebook by my cousin in Conneticut polled 150 people and basically came out with the same thing, This on the upper east coast. Real people want the truth. Lou Dobbs is the only one to come out and say Trump will win bigtime.
Thanks Gwenn. I will check it out.
Let’s see a Trump win.
Big League.
Here’s a list of websites that are having trouble..
Most are a part of “Dyn” Managed DNS infrastructure.
to see a map of the outtages:
http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/
ActBlue
Basecamp
Big cartel
Box
Business Insider
CNN
Cleveland.com
Etsy
Github
Grubhub
Guardian.co.uk
HBO Now
Iheart.com (iHeartRadio)
Imgur
Intercom
Intercom.com
Okta
PayPal
People.com
Pinterest
Playstation Network
Recode
Reddit
Seamless
Spotify
Squarespace Customer Sites
Starbucks rewards/gift cards
Storify.com
The Verge
Twillo
Twitter
Urbandictionary.com (lol)
Weebly
Wired.com
Wix Customer Sites
Yammer
Yelp
Zendesk.com
Zoho CRM
Credit Karma
Eventbrite
Netflix
NHL.com
Fox News
Disqus
Shopify
Soundcloud
Atom.io
Ancersty.com
ConstantContact
Indeed.com
New York Times
Weather.com
WSJ.com
time.com
xbox.com
dailynews.com
Wikia
donorschoose.org
Wufoo.com
Genonebiology.com
BBC
Elder Scrolls Online
Eve Online
PagerDuty
Kayak
youneedabudget.com
Speed Test
Freshbooks
Braintree
Blue Host
Qualtrics
SBNation
Salsify.com
Zillow.com
nimbleschedule.com
Vox.com
Livestream.com
IndieGoGo
Fortune
CNBC.com
FT.com
Survey Monkey
Paragon Game
Runescape
They’ve been attacked more than 5 times so far..
DDOS is not an elegant attack. It’s a protest/nusiance. Like cramming people into a store, and chanting rude things. Using hacked home routers and the various embedded Internet of Hacked Things (IOHT) devices as bots is relatively new.
If this had been a State player there would not be a single exposed SCADA still online in the whole country.
The power grids would be down. Hard. Water treatment systems, down. Sewage treatment plants, down. Telecom, down.
We would be seeing satellites de-orbiting themselves, for no apparent reason. Power plants, including nuclear power plants, having seizures, trains crashing into each other, ATC having a stroke, etc..
It would not a fun day.
I actually thought this was quite clever..
Accuse your supporters of massive cyber attacks, before the Clinton gang can accuse…………..wait for it……………………………………………
The Russians!!