A massive DDOS attack is causing havoc online right now

Russia trying to ball out before we fook them up?

twitter, wistia, wink as well

While annoying, I find DDOS attacks rather childish and amateurish, especially if it were coming from someone like Russia (not saying it is).

Here's an example of what that effects:
"Hunny, I can't get Sonos to play music and Wink isn't turning the lights off!"
"I dunno, we'll listen to music later and just turn the lights on/off manually!"

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Here's an example of what that effects:
"Hunny, I can't get Sonos to play music and Wink isn't turning the lights off!"
"I dunno, we'll listen to music later and just turn the lights on/off manually!"

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You really think that's all it affects?

Gizmodo

well, damn. yikes.
The better question now becomes:
A) Who dunnit?
B) How do we try and prevent this in the future?

Is it all on the left coast?

That link is down.

Irony?

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While annoying, I find DDOS attacks rather childish and amateurish, especially if it were coming from someone like Russia (not saying it is).

Here's an example of what that effects:
"Hunny, I can't get Sonos to play music and Wink isn't turning the lights off!"
"I dunno, we'll listen to music later and just turn the lights on/off manually!"

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You're thinking about how it affects you. You need to think about how it affects the huge companies that are being attacked.

Here is an example of the effects:

Big Corp. Exec: "Oh shite, no one can access our websites and services! This is costing us $10million/day!"

Childish Amateur Attacker: "Yeah, that's me. Put $1million into this account and I'll stop the attack."



Of course, if it's a state behind it then there are much, much bigger goals.

cause I don't say "E"-Fected out loud. I usually correct it but i didnt read my post this time.