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How An Attack On A Company You've Never Heard Of Shut Down The Internet

• http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. Atherton

If you were on the internet today, as you may have been if you're reading this, then you probably noticed some sites are having trouble loading, and others are not working at all. There's a good reason for that. Well, not a good reason, but a clear, obvious reason: someone is attacking the internet, and they're succeeding.

The attacks have a single primary target: a company called Dyn DNS. The company is a middleman on the internet, providing the DNS service that routes requests from your computers or phones to the websites that are your final destination. When everything works smoothly, Dyn has a low profile, and there's little reason to give it a second thought. But when the DNS servers go down, internet traffic can't get anywhere, so popular sites are unreachable, and users are left wondering what, exactly, went wrong. The attacks have blocked everything from Grubhub to Github, leaving the hungry, the nerdy, and everyone else, with an internet experience that's sorely lacking.


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