
Last weeks Denial of Service attack
By this time, most of you have read, or are aware of, the massive internet disruptions that occurred on October 21. Many popular sites: Twitter, Amazon, PayPal, Netflix, and others, became unavailable. The cause of this was a highly sophisticated denial of service attack on their DNS service provider, Dyn.com. What most people don’t realize is that attacks such as this are only possible because the average computer user may have unknowingly helped the hackers. If this sou