DEVELOPING: Third Wave of Internet Cyber Attack Underway! More Sites Crashing

Dyn, the internet performance management company, is warning its customers that for the third time on Friday a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is under way. For much of Friday, many internet users, mostly on the US East Coast, have suffered through downed internet service. Amazon, Netflix, PayPal, Reddit, Spotify and Twitter were among

the more prominent sites affected, as were many major mainstream news sources. “We have begun monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed (Domain Name System) infrastructure. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue,” Dyn said on its website just before noon Eastern Time. READ MORE