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    This Is Probably Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today

    Rebel for God posted this on FB today:
    If anyone is experiencing slower internet than usual this morning, this is probably why. A few hours ago, the East Coast was hit by a massive DDOS cyber attack that literally knocked out a huge portion of the nation's internet. It lasted about two hours, but full connectivity is still far from restored even now.

    It was a pretty strategic strike, definitely not homegrown. I'm guessing either North Korea, China or Russia. They hit particular locations that spiderwebbed out and knocked out all sorts of services. Not amateurs, that's for sure. On the news article, there's a list of the services that went down completely.

    The hard part is, that was probably just a test. Now that the hackers know it was a success, there's probably going to be a bigger one coming.


    This Is Probably Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today

    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.

    In order to understand how ...

    (there's a map at the link showing the outages in the US)



    http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-...day-1788062835

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    Rebel for God says: I just noticed they updated the article... the attack is launched again and it's worse.

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    Wow...ok that explains the issues I was having this morning...

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    Here's a post from FB I came across:

    Internet Outage - Cyber Warfare Update

    When you check the Twitter page of Wikileaks, the reason for today's Internet outage becomes obvious.

    Heavily armed troops appeared outside the Ecuadoran embassy in London early this morning where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is staying under political asylum. Assange has been a thorn in the side of the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton because of his continued release of hacked e-mails, which have embarrassed them.

    Shortly after the armed forces showed up outside Assange's window, the Internet in the US suffered widespread blackouts.

    An hour ago Wikileaks tweeted:
    "Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point."

    Wikileaks then tweeted this:
    "The Obama administration should not have attempted to misuse its instruments of state to stop criticism of its ruling party candidate."

    It would appear as though Assange supporters took down the internet this morning to show the US government there would be consequences if they took Assange prisoner.

    To be continued...

    Wikileaks Twitter page: https://twitter.com/wikileaks

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    Another post from FB:

    Cyber-Warfare - Connecting the Dots

    Today (Friday) there were widespread internet outages across the US. Many people outside our country reported that they could not access popular websites either. It's already been confirmed that the outages were a result of cyber-warfare.

    This begs the question:
    Why would someone intentionally sabotage our internet?

    Let's connect the dots.

    Earlier this month, President Obama put our intelligence community on high alert. He then informed Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia, that if they did not stop releasing the e-mails they stole from Hillary Clinton's unsecured e-mail server, they would face the consequences of a cyber-war.

    That begs the question:
    Why would the President risk a cyber-war with Russia over a few stolen e-mails?

    Possible answer:
    What if there is information in those e-mails that he doesn't want anyone to know about?

    Next question:
    What kind of information found in an e-mail could be damaging to the President?

    Let's connect a few more dots.

    A few days ago, Wikileaks released an e-mail from Hillary's campaign manager, John Podesta, questioning whether the President should be removed from their e-mail loop, since it might compromise his executive privilege of denying any knowledge of her somewhat sketchy activities.

    Yesterday Wikileaks released more e-mails. Some came from the private account: bobama@ameritech.com.

    The e-mails from the private account are not incriminating. They were sent before the President took office. But more e-mails are about to be released and Juliian Assange has hinted that they will eventually implicate the President and demonstrate that he knew the Secretary of State was keeping top secret e-mails on an unsecured server.

    Someone is going to a lot of trouble to silence Asaange and make sure more e-mails are not leaked. His internet service was disconnected earlier this week by the Ecuadoran government. (He's been staying in their embassy in London.) Some have suggested it was our own State Department that pressured Ecuador to shut him down, but that has not been proven

    Hillary testified before Congress that no foreign government could have accessed her e-mails. In the last month she's changed her story. She and the President now insist Russia did in fact hack into her server and steal her e-mails.

    The President has previously said he knew nothing about Hillary's e-mail server. But if the Wikileaks e-mails prove differently, he is then in the difficult positing of explaining why he approved of the use of an illegal and unsecured server, which he is now admitting was hacked by Russia.

    The most plausible answer to why the President felt the need to threaten Russia with cyber-warfare is that he's trying to keep those damaging e-mails from being released.

    ** Update - Around the time this was posted, Wikileaks tweeted that there were heavily armed "police" outside Assange's embassy window. A few hours later Wikileaks tweeted this:

    "Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point."

    It would seem that Assange, his supporters and the government are involved in a game of cat and mouse.

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