Twitter, Spotify shut as U.S. provider comes under cyber attackOctober 21, 2016 - 18:26 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Major internet services including Twitter and Spotify suffered outages on Friday, October 21 as a U.S. internet provider came under cyber attack, AFP reports. The internet service company Dyn said that it had suffered a denial of service (DDoS) attack on its domain name service shortly after 1100 GMT, but that services had been restored in about two hours. Other affected sites, which serve millions of customers, reportedly included the crafts marketplace Etsy and the software developer site Github, according to the website Hacker News. "This morning, October 21, Dyn received a global DDoS attack on our Managed DNS infrastructure in the east coast of the United States," said Scott Hilton, executive vice president for products at Dyn, in a statement. "DNS traffic resolved from east coast name server locations are experiencing a service degradation or intermittent interruption during this time," Hilton added. "We have been aggressively mitigating the DDoS attack against our infrastructure." The company said it was continuing to investigate. Distributed denial of service or DDoS attacks involve sending high volumes of requests to websites which can be taken off line as a result. Domain Name Services are a crucial element of internet infrastructure, converting numbered Internet Protocol addresses into the domain names that allow users to connect to internet sites. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |