{"id":109047,"date":"2016-10-21T16:41:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=109047"},"modified":"2016-10-21T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T15:10:47","slug":"why-some-of-the-internets-biggest-websites-were-down-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/109047-why-some-of-the-internets-biggest-websites-were-down-today","title":{"rendered":"Why some of the Internet&#8217;s biggest websites were down today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the world&#8217;s largest website were affected by outages today following a massive DDoS attack, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks were directed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dynstatus.com\/incidents\/nlr4yrr162t8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> on the servers of Dyn<\/a><\/strong>, a major DNS host. Dyn has subsequently posted the following update on its website:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full list of websites affected by the DDoS attacks include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ActBlue<\/li>\n<li>Basecamp<\/li>\n<li>Big cartel<\/li>\n<li>Box<\/li>\n<li>Business Insider<\/li>\n<li>CNN<\/li>\n<li>Cleveland.com<\/li>\n<li>Esty<\/li>\n<li>Github<\/li>\n<li>Grubhub<\/li>\n<li>Guardian.co.uk<\/li>\n<li>HBO Now<\/li>\n<li>Iheart.com (iHeartRadio)<\/li>\n<li>Imgur<\/li>\n<li>Intercom<\/li>\n<li>Intercom.com<\/li>\n<li>Okta<\/li>\n<li>PayPal<\/li>\n<li>People.com<\/li>\n<li>Pinterest<\/li>\n<li>Playstation Network<\/li>\n<li>Recode<\/li>\n<li>Reddit<\/li>\n<li>Spotify<\/li>\n<li>Squarespace Customer Sites<\/li>\n<li>Starbucks rewards\/gift cards<\/li>\n<li>Storify.com<\/li>\n<li>The Verge<\/li>\n<li>Twillo<\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Urbandictionary.com (lol)<\/li>\n<li>Weebly<\/li>\n<li>Wired.com<\/li>\n<li>Wix Customer Sites<\/li>\n<li>Yammer<\/li>\n<li>Yelp<\/li>\n<li>Zendesk.com<\/li>\n<li>Zoho CRM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Now read: <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/108643-south-african-uncapped-fibre-lines-are-now-much-cheaper-than-uncapped-adsl.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>So<\/strong>uth African uncapped Fibre lines are now much cheaper than Uncapped ADSL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PlayStation Network and other major websites have been hit with a massive outage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":109049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[31,23001,22999,22597,23003],"class_list":["post-109047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-active","tag-affected","tag-down-ddos","tag-outage","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}