Web service provider Dyn said Saturday evening that a cyberattack that disrupted huge chunks of the Internet Friday is under investigation, and that the company is looking out for other digital assaults. Dyn is a major provider of domain name system, or DNS, services -- a key piece of Internet infrastructure that enables users to connect to websites. Many users around the world had trouble accessing popular services including Twitter, Paypal and Netflix during the attacks. DDoS attacks have become more frequent and more powerful in recent years, but York called the cyberattacks that hit Dyn potentially "historic." Traffic from tens of millions of IP addresses -- some of which came from Internet of Things devices -- blasted the company's systems, he said.

Source: Washington Post October 23, 2016 02:15 UTC