People remember Amazon - dot - com, but they don't remember the numerical IP address (which is actually where a company
like Dyn sends web users going to a site like Amazon).
Not exact matches
The men then used those web - connected devices to flood online services
like Internet - monitoring firm
Dyn with so much traffic that they would slow or go offline.
Like many SaaS companies,
Dyn started as a small niche player in an important corner of the Internet — Managed DNS — and slowly carved out a space, honing our product and beating competitors on service, pricing, relationships and added - value until we grew to be the market leader.
It looks
like the outages are the result of a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on
Dyn, a major DNS host based in New Hampshire.
The DDoS attack on
Dyn knocked out a lot of service access for internet users in the United States on the east coast, resulting in services
like Twitter being inaccessible.
They don't give any kind of ETA on how long the
Dyn domain services will be affected nor are there any details on who claimed responsibility for the attack, but this is definitely a lot bigger and a lot more coordinated than the small scale stuff pulled off by rogue groups
like the Lizard Squad.
I would
like to add Web of Trust and
Dyn Internet Guide as they can help reduce the risk of infection for many users.