WASHINGTON: Major internet services including Twitter, Spotify and Amazon suffered service interruptions and outages on Friday as a US internet provider came under sustained cyber attack. The internet service company Dyn, which routes and manages internet traffic, said that it had suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on its domain name service shortly after 1100 GMT. Service was initially restored within about two hours but close to three hours later the company said again said it was responding to an attack. Dyn, which is headquartered in New Hampshire, said the attack went after its domain name service, causing interruptions and slowdowns. A map published by the website downdetector.com initially showed service interruptions for Level3 Communications, a so-called “backbone” internet service provider, across much of the US east coast and in Texas.

Source: New Strait Times October 21, 2016 17:48 UTC