press Oct 21, 2016 · Washington Post
Why Twitter, Spotify and other major sites may be inaccessible
A Washington Post article reports on a massive distributed denial-of-service attack against DNS provider Dyn that caused widespread outages across Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, and other major internet services. Casey Ellis provided analysis and commentary on the attack's impact on internet infrastructure and the security implications for affected platforms.
Source description — as published
Reports on a massive DDoS attack against the DNS provider Dyn, which caused widespread outages for major internet services like Twitter, Spotify, and Reddit.