

Imagine you could convince thousands of friends to show up at your local cafe. The first story is this: How did this attack work? Distributed Denial of Service Atack What is particularly interesting about this attack to our industry, is that there are in fact TWO distinct stories here. Users of Paypal, Reddit, Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and others, reported outages.Ĭyber Security threat researchers have done the post mortem on the attack and warned it was more likely the work of amateurs than a foreign state sponsored attack. was felt almost immediately after it started at 07:00 am EST.

CUBE discusses recent Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks
