Mexico City.- Saltillo was one of the cities that joined in as a victim of the cyber offensive against Dyn Inc., as for several hours, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Netflix experienced failures in their services.
The cyber attack affected sites such as The New York Times, WhatsApp, Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, and others.
The company that manages the domains of the websites suffered a DDoS Attack, a denial-of-service that causes it to saturate and visitation are not available.
The attack against a firm of internet services has caused significant web sites may not be available in the united States this Friday, reported by the company Dyn, Inc., with headquarters in New Hampshire.
Paralyzing cyberattack on the social networks
The attack against a firm of services of the internet caused that important web sites were not available in the united States and some areas of Europe and Mexico since yesterday morning, though the attack lasted mainly in the American Union.
according To the company DyN, Inc., headquartered in New Hampshire, – who provides services for the management and optimization of traffic to major sites such as Twitter, Netflix, Visa, Github, Airbnb, Reddit, Freshbooks, Heroku, Spotify, WhatsApp and even the newspaper the New York Times– their servers have suffered a DDoS Attack that saturates the unwanted traffic from the servers causing the pages not to respond.
Likewise, the medes of media, such as CNN, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe and The Guardian were also affected.
DyN said in a statement that he had reports of the attack from the 7 hours of this Friday, October 21, and that two hours after the service was restored. But two hours later the company reported that he suffered another attack.
The biggest attack of this type occurred recently was in last September in France, in which we used 150 thousand devices smart devices (refrigerators, cars, smart tvs, among others) to achieve the attack on the company OVH, a hosting provider.
however, the true piece of background to an attack of this magnitude is reflected in the voltage that lives in the united States to cyber-attacks and the recent events that led him to reveal that perpetrarían an attack similar to this against the Government of Russia for its alleged meddling in the presidential election.
Asismimo, we investigate if the offense is a contrarrespuesta of cyber pirates from all over the world to the alleged involvement of EU for the Embassy of Ecuador in United Kingdom restricted access to the internet Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.
'we will LOOK at THE RESPONSIBLE'
The u.s. Government is investigating the "malicious activity" registered yesterday morning. The spokesman of the White House, Josh Earnest, confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is "monitoring the situation" and goes to investigate more deeply these attacks.
"the Internet is still dependent on protocols and infrastructure that was designed before cyber-attacks emerged as a problem," explained Ben Johnson, exingeniero of the National Security Agency united States (NSA) and founder of the cyber security company Carbon Black.
"The denial of service attacks will continue to haunt our organizations, especially with the rise of the connected objects is not safe. Unfortunately, what we are witnessing is only the beginning of large-scale attacks," he said.
According to the company Verisign, the number of denial of service attacks increased 75% during the second quarter of this year.
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According to the consultancy firm internet security Flashpoint, the attacks appear to have originated with "bots", software designed to perform connection requests to false, which takes advantage of the infrastructure of the "Internet of Things" to make devices with internet connection behave like people who try to access certain internet addresses.
In a message on Twitter, Wikileaks asked its supporters to "stop ruining the internet in the united States. Have proven their stance", addressing the issue as if it were a supposed response of internet activists by the treatment that it has received the activist since 2012.
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last October 7, The Kremlin described them as "rubbish" the charges in the u.s. against Russia.
"again this kind of crap. Each day the website of Vladimir Putin is attacked by tens of thousands of hackers. Many of these attacks come from the territory of EU but not us, we accuse each moment to the White House," said the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov.
however, Andrey Krustkij, special envoy of president Putin reiterated Moscow on the 15th of October that plans for the EU to launch a cyber attack against Russia in retaliation for the alleged meddling in the presidential campaigns in the u.s. is "playing with fire" and "the house is burning".
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