#DDoS 10/21: The Cloud Is Not Secure

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As I’m sure many people are now aware, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/" target="_blank">a significant portion of the Internet is down</a> in the United States as the result of a massive DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) cyber attack. At the time of writing this, it is suspected that this was carried out by an IoT botnet attacking <a href="https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8" target="_blank">Dyn a DNS provider</a>, possibly using the <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/source-code-for-iot-botnet-mirai-released/" target="_blank">“Mirai” source code that was leaked recently</a>. It is currently unknown who is behind the attack, but theories are ranging from Russia, a domestic attack from our own government for propaganda purposes, to the hacking collective anonymous.