Dyn Cyber Attack Left You Helpless
On Friday, October 22, everyone who uses the internet was under attack. Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb, The New York Times—all were inaccessible for hours. From our partners, Box.com and SugarSync were also down. Image source: Wikipedia This Attack Was Different We’ve seen a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks before. But not like this. Past DDoS attacks have mostly targeted a single website. Friday’s attack went after a middleman, a little-known company called Dyn. Dyn is something like a post office for