As Americans head to the polls Tuesday, security experts are warning that hackers could disrupt the presidential election. A number of major sites including Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and Reddit were impacted by the Oct. 21 distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), on Internet services company Dyn. MYSTERIOUS CYBER ATTACKS DISRUPT TWITTER, NETFLIX, SPOTIFY SERVICEDistributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which often occur when a hacker “floods” a network with information, are a popular method for disrupting websites and services. The analyst, however, notes that major DDoS attacks are difficult for hackers to sustain, and also cites the low-tech nature of some U.S. election infrastructure. While the risk to computer-enabled election systems varies from county to county, targeted attacks against individual voter registration databases are possible, it said.

Source: Fox News November 08, 2016 16:28 UTC