A distributed denial of service attack is essentially hosing a website with so much spam that it can’t keep up. If you’re not up on your acronyms, DNS is short for domain name system: Think of it like the contacts list of the internet, a way to get crucial information your computer needs to load a website.
Across the US, reports are flooding in that major websites are down or impossible to reach, and it’s because of a mysterious attack on a fundamental piece of the internet.Įarlier this morning, Dyn, a major Managed DNS provider, reported it was being targeted by a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS attack. If you’re having trouble booting up Spotify or getting on Twitter today, you’re far from alone.
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