For those who are not aware, a ton of websites and services were and currently still are impacted by a highly sophisticated DDoS attack today. Below is a list c/o Gizmodo.com, of websites and services currently reported to have been impacted - although this list by far is not complete.
Basecamp
Big cartel
Box
Business Insider
CNN
Cleveland.com
Etsy
Github
Grubhub
Guardian.co.uk
HBO Now
Iheart.com (iHeartRadio)
Imgur
Intercom
Intercom.com
Okta
PayPal
People.com
Playstation Network
Recode
Seamless
Spotify
Squarespace Customer Sites
Starbucks rewards/gift cards
Storify.com
Wikia
donorschoose.org
Wufoo.com
Genonebiology.com
BBC
Elder Scrolls Online
Eve Online
PagerDuty
youneedabudget.com
Speed Test
Freshbooks
Braintree
Blue Host
Qualtrics
SBNation
Salsify.com
Zillow.com
nimbleschedule.com
Vox.com
Livestream.com
IndieGoGo
Fortune
CNBC.com
FT.com
Survey Monkey
Paragon Game
Runescape
Twillo
Urbandictionary.com (lol)
Weebly
Wired.com
Wix Customer Sites
Yammer
Yelp
Zendesk.com
Zoho CRM
Credit Karma
Eventbrite
Netflix
NHL.com
Fox News
Disqus
Shopify
Soundcloud
Atom.io
Ancersty.com
ConstantContact
Indeed.com
New York Times
Weather.com
WSJ.com
time.com
xbox.com
As you can see from the list above, there are several key websites and services that have been affected.
How was this done
As most people know, it would take an enormous amount of resources to attack so many websites and services individually. What these hackers did was attack a major DNS host which translates Domain names to IP Addresses in order to route users to specific websites.
The question right now is, Is this just the beginning? and also who is behind it? Agencies believe that "this is too large scale for an organized group of hackers and feels that large nation states are behind it." Could this be the start of the end for the internet as we know it?
What are your thoughts? Let me know what you think in the comments below.
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can we prevent such a thing for steemit.com?
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a lot of those sites could go down permanently and humanity would be better for it.
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Just warming up I think... Paper wallets for Bitcoins. Steem and anything internet could have an issue.
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let's all migrate to zeronet!
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Woot!!
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Could it be possible that it because of the turning over of (what was the name of that) to the United Nations?
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