Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites
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#2How long could this go on for?
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#3Can't recall ever seeing the NY Times embed tweets in a story, is this a first?
edit: apparently it's because I mostly read the site within the app.
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#4Extensive commentary on this topic is in the update from Dyn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759697
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#5Can't recall ever seeing the NY Times embed tweets in a story, is this a first? edit: apparently it's because I mostly read the site within the app.
No, they do it all the time, especially for politically-related stories.
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#6If these sites hosted with google cloud, would they be less susceptible to ddos attacks?
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#7Typical Dark Army
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#8Can't recall ever seeing the NY Times embed tweets in a story, is this a first? edit: apparently it's because I mostly read the site within the app.
They've done it before, especially for trump: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/politics/trump-apprenti...
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#9How long could this go on for?
This particular attack will likely eventually be mitigated (hours? days?). But it seems there is nothing preventing similar attacks from starting at any time, and be less possible to prevent each time.
Personally, I fear we are closer to global-scale, machine-learning-based attacks that find vulnerabilities, exploit them, and change patterns on the fly. We may not have a stable internet any more.
Am I blindly fearmongering? I hope not. But these are new waters. Insecure IoT is growing every hour and there's no clear path to stop it from being exploited more and more.
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#10If these sites hosted with google cloud, would they be less susceptible to ddos attacks?
This attack is on the DNS and niṛ in the sites themselves. The sites are working fine. We need better infrastructure for the internet.