Reports of online disruption cropped up across the East Coast of the United States and Canada, including in Toronto, after a key Internet firm was hit by a cyberattack Friday. Manchester, New Hampshire-based Dyn, Inc. said its server infrastructure was being hit by a distributed denial-of-service attacks, which work by overwhelming targeted machines with junk traffic. Analysts said the attack was having knock-on effects for American users trying to access popular websites across the East Coast, several of whom reported problems. The level of disruption was difficult to gauge globally, but Dyn provides internet traffic management and optimization services to some of the biggest names on the web, including Twitter, Netflix and Visa. Read said that Dyn provides services to some 6 per cent of America’s Fortune 500 companies, meaning a big potential for disruption.

Source: thestar October 21, 2016 17:48 UTC