This is a dry run.

I expect Election Day is going to be interesting.

Stupid trump is doing exactly what Putin wants. If Putin can show the world that elections don't work in our democracy he wins. He shows the world how flawed democracy is. Stupid trump and his crowd of deplorable people are being played like a fettle.Yes Putin is behind this rigged election crap. Trump is a double agent and is too stupid to realize it.

That a DDoS attack can be used as a distraction to exploit other weaknesses or gain entry to other system while all the screaming and yelling is going on somewhere else.

http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835

Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to assume that the two situations are related.

Update 12:28 PM EST: Dyn says it is investigating yet another attack, causing the same massive outages experienced this morning. Based on emails from Gizmodo readers, this new wave of attacks seems to be affecting the West Coast of the United States and Europe. It’s so far unclear how the two attacks are related, but the outages are very similar.


http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/

The White House press secretary has also said that the Department of Homeland Security is looking into the attacks.

The DDoS attack on Dyn follows on the heels of one of the largest DDoS attack in history, which targeted the website of independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs. Although DDoS attacks have historically used large networks of compromised computers called botnets to send junk traffic to sites, overwhelming them and making them inaccessible to legitimate users, the Krebs attack expanded in scale by using compromised Internet of Things devices like security cameras to build a botnet. IoT devices are cheaply manufactured and notoriously insecure, making them easy to compromise.

After the attack on Krebs’ website, the code used to build the botnet leaked online, making more massive DDoS attacks all but inevitable. Although it’s not clear yet whether an IoT botnet is behind the attack on Dyn, it certainly would not be surprising. Security researcher Bruce Schneier reported in September that several internet infrastructure companies had been targeted with DDoS attacks, although they had not caused the kind of widespread outages experienced today. Shneier wrote that the attacks seemed designed to test companies’ defensive capabilities:

“These attacks are significantly larger than the ones they’re used to seeing. They last longer. They’re more sophisticated. And they look like probing. One week, the attack would start at a particular level of attack and slowly ramp up before stopping. The next week, it would start at that higher point and continue. And so on, along those lines, as if the attacker were looking for the exact point of failure.”

If the DDoS stops, you have your culprit. These attacks are started from a central point.


Then leave the fiber disconnected permanently.

Never happen, of course.
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His beloved medium, Twitter, is down.

I wonder if that is connected.