How the Seismic DDoS Attack on Dyn Shook the Internet

November 28, 2016 Bob Withers Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

On October 21, 2016, hackers launched one of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet Performance Management company Dyn. The cloud-based Domain Name System (DNS) provider supports many major web properties such as Twitter, Reddit, Spotify, Airbnb, Netflix and Amazon’s web services. When Dyn’s servers and network connections were overwhelmed by the cyberattack, Internet users were unable to access the sites.