Someone Is Trying To Take Down the Internet

[Millard]

The attack was well coordinated with the move against Assange, who has already alluded to being the cause. I'm guessing he had no idea anyone would be dumb enough to cut his internet connection, and some automated triggers went off. The attack did end abruptly after the Wikileaks tweet asking for them to stop.

"Mr. Assange is still alive and WikiLeaks is still publishing. We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet. You proved your point."​

WikiLeaks supporters claim credit for massive U.S. cyberattack, but researchers skeptical

A massive cyberattack Friday on a key internet routing company knocked offline major websites like Spotify, Twitter and The New York Times, as WikiLeaks supporters claimed credit.

But security researchers were quick to cast doubt on their boasts. The federal government has said it is investigating, declining to speculate on who is responsible.

Hacktivist groups Anonymous and New World Friday afternoon said they were behind the digital siege...

Digital security researchers tracking Friday's attacks advised against jumping to conclusions, arguing that there could be many explanations.

Nick Rossmann, senior project manager at FireEye, noted that New World Hackers have a history of falsely claiming attacks against high-profile entities. He also expressed doubt that the group has the capabilities to conduct an attack on such a scale.​

 

[flenser]

[url=http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-24/chinese-firm-whose-cameras-took-down-internet-friday]This Is The Chinese Firm Whose Cameras Took Down The Internet On Friday[/URL]

Meet the Chinese company behind the millions of connected security cameras that were used to take down the internet last week.

 

[Big_paul]

The offenders are wiki leak nerds, with the support of the Russian federation. They are angry because their boy will lose the US presidential election, and because we retaliated against their hacking activities that they have been involved in is the US. What will we do next? I guess this is how wars will be fought.