Amazon.com Inc's web services division, one of the world's biggest cloud computing companies, also disclosed an outage that lasted several hours on Friday morning. It was unclear who was responsible for the Dyn attack, which the company said disrupted operations for about two hours. It is the latest in an increasingly menacing string of "denial of service" attacks disrupting internet sites by overwhelming servers with web traffic. It earlier reported its engineers were working to respond to an "attack" that mainly affected users on the East Coast. Attacking a large DNS provider can create massive disruptions because such firms are responsible for forwarding large volumes of internet traffic.

Source: The Edge Markets October 21, 2016 16:52 UTC