A cyberattack tomb some of the most important sites in the world

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A cyberattack tomb some of the most important sites in the world

Twitter, eBay, Amazon, Paypal, Netflix, Spotify, Reddit and daily 'The New York Times and Financial Times, among the sites affected.

Some of the most important websites in the world, all US companies have been victims Friday of a massive cyberattack, which has caused them problems connecting or even total collapse.
The affected pages are Internet giants like Twitter, Amazon, Paypal, eBay, Netflix, Reddit, Spotify and The New York Times and Financial Times. They have also been attacked other sites like Airbnb, Shopify, SoundCloud, Github and Imgur, among others.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security US Government. UU. They are investigating whether the attack was a "criminal act".
Apparently, it has been a denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against the management company Dyn servers, although Amazon Web Services, in addition to its po[CENSORED]r e-commerce portal provides through its AWS server internet services other companies, has also been disrupted.
In a DDoS attack, hackers try to saturate the server response with a wave of false claims access.
Sabotage has lasted about two hours, although the consequences and problems have endured more.

Two waves of attacks

According DyN, a business performance management cloud-based Internet, which manages these services, its engineers are working on this issue because of "incidents that are currently recording" to mitigate their effects.
DyN the first attack took place at 07:10 hours (13:10 in Euskadi) and, depending on the service, it has affected "customers primarily on the East Coast of the United States."
Twitter has confirmed that its service has remained inaccessible in some parts of the world for two hours "by failures in the response of DNS servers" similar to the problems that have detected Zendesk, a software company customer relationship, or Github, the most po[CENSORED]r code repository and collaborative programming.
After informing the restoration of its services about two hours after the first alert, DyN reported at 15:20 (time in Euskadi) of at least another cyberattack of these same features, without its origin is known.
Although the origin of the attack is on the east coast of the US. UU., Its effects have spread further across the globe. In fact, Twitter and other sites have also been falls in Euskadi.