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Major DDoS attack on Dyn DNS knocks Spotify, Twitter, Github, PayPal, and more offline

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<strong>Update 5: </strong>At 6:18 P.M. Eastern Dyn said the DDoS attacks have been resolved. Fingers crossed another wave doesn't occur, as happened earlier today. You can find Dyn's incident report here (https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/5r9mppc1kb77).</p><p>
<strong>Update 4: </strong>Dyn is being hit by a third wave of DDoS attacks Friday afternoon. The attacks are “well planned and executed, coming from tens of millions of IP addresses at the same time,” the company told CNBC (http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/21/major-websites-across-east-coast-knocked-out-in-apparent-ddos-attack.html).</p><p>
<strong>Update 3: </strong>A DownDetector.com heat map purportedly showing backbone internet provider Level 3’s East Coast outages was removed from this piece at 2:50 p.m. Eastern, as a Level 3 spokesperson says its network “was operating normally this morning, and [

the company] did not see an East Coast outage.” See the informative Periscope from its CSO embedded below.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3133847/internet/ddos-attack-on-dyn-knocks-spotify-twitter-github-etsy-and-more-offline.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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