#What Happened to the Internet on Friday On Friday, October 21st dozens of websites were inaccessible during the day. Some of these include Twitter and Spotify. This was done through a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) They targeted the DNS provider Dyn. The result of this was an outage to people that were using their services to not be able to reach many sites.
A DDoS is a huge group of botnets (computers or devices taken over by a hacker) that send a flood of traffic to a site. The result of this is that the service is overwhelmed by the attack and makes legitimate use slow. Also it is harder to stop since it's originating from so many different places, with no real pattern.
The implications of this attack were noticeable but didn't take out the internet. This is because it only took out one part of the chain of going to different sites. DNS translates a domain name (I.E. scj643.me) and translates that into an IP address (107.170.104.108 in the case of scj643.me). Since only one DNS server was taken do