Russia is bored today.
Via CNBC:
Major websites and services across the East Coast were shut down for two hours Friday morning by a denial of service attack.
Domain host company Dyn said the attack started at 7:10 a.m. and lasted for more than two hours.
It affected Dyn’s Managed Domain Name System infrastructure, which serves companies including Amazon, Twitter, Spotify and CNBC.com.
The system directs users to the correct webpage.
Update:
Disqus as well for those who noticed.
Update:
According to Gizmodo, Dyn says they are being hit with a third wave of attacks. Dyn told CNBC the attack is “well planned and executed, coming from tens of millions IP addresses at same time.”