Internet struck by waves of outages as massive DDoS attack affects major services | Joel Hruska – Extreme Tech — The Center of the Decentralized

Rolling outages and intermittent connectivity problems hit the Internet today, thanks to a massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack launched at DNS provider Dyn. A DDoS attack can knock out a single website or service provider by overloading their servers with garbage data and overwhelming their ability to process new connections. Affected sites include […]

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