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General => Tech Chat => Topic started by: Tom on October 21, 2016, 12:04:14 PM

Title: Small issues with Level3 today.
Post by: Tom on October 21, 2016, 12:04:14 PM
If you're experiencing some issues with teh internets, it might be related to a small issue Level3 is having.

Title: Re: Small issues with Level3 today.
Post by: Thorin on October 21, 2016, 12:19:14 PM
Hmm, no, I'm not having any issues with internet today.  Or any other day this month.  (see that crazy data usage chart I posted earlier)
Title: Re: Small issues with Level3 today.
Post by: Lazybones on October 21, 2016, 12:20:22 PM
Actually the main issue is a DDOS attack against DYN https://www.dynstatus.com/

They host Twitter, GitHub, Netflix and many other big names DNS records.

Normally they brush these attacks off.
Title: Re: Small issues with Level3 today.
Post by: Tom on October 21, 2016, 12:22:25 PM
Apparently its big enough to knock out level3 tho. People are reporting not just no connection, but slow connections to places.
Title: Re: Small issues with Level3 today.
Post by: Mr. Analog on October 21, 2016, 01:14:56 PM
Last news I heard was investigation into this as an infrastructure attack coupled with DDoS (mind you there's so much speculative garbage flying around right now who knows what)
Title: Re: Small issues with Level3 today.
Post by: Lazybones on October 21, 2016, 02:51:18 PM
Moving on to attack wave three, apparently they are using IoT devices they have exploited.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/21/major-websites-across-east-coast-knocked-out-in-apparent-ddos-attack.html
Title: Re: Small issues with Level3 today.
Post by: Tom on October 21, 2016, 02:55:16 PM
Sounds like they are just escalating. Last big attack was IoT devices as well.