Cyber attacks disrupt Twitter, Spotify, other sites on US East CoastKACPER PEMPEL/REUTERS Micro-blogging platform Twitter's website was one of those interrupted by a cyber attack on DNS servers. Cyber attacks targeting the internet infrastructure provider Dyn disrupted service on major sites such as Twitter and Spotify on Friday (Saturday NZ Time), mainly affecting users on the US East Coast. CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/REUTERS Music-streaming service Spotify was among the companies disrupted by a cyber attack on servers on the US east coast. Dyn is a Manchester, New Hampshire-based provider of services for managing domain name servers (DNS), which act as switchboards connecting internet traffic. Requests to access sites are transmitted through DNS servers that direct them to computers that host websites.

Source: Stuff October 21, 2016 18:11 UTC