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GIF Today, half of America’s internet shut down when hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s still unclear exactly who carried out the attack and why, but regardless, the event served as a demonstration of how easily large swaths of the web…
GIF Gif: Andrew Liszewski Today a massive DDoS attack took out a major piece of Internet infrastructure, causing huge outages across the United States and Europe. Watch it spread like a disease across the States. core-decorated Staff Writer, Gizmodo | william.turton@gizmodo.com PGP Fingerprint: 88DF AB75 FAFC 1D10 4C45 A875 CA45 ABE6 B08D 8E52|PGP KeyOTR Fingerprint:…
Image: Shutterstock This morning a ton of websites and services, including Spotify and Twitter, were unreachable because of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a major DNS provider. Details of how the attack happened remain vague, but one thing seems certain. Our internet is frightfully fragile in the face of increasingly sophisticated…
Image: Getty Twitter, Spotify and Reddit, and a huge swath of other websites were down or screwed up this morning. This was happening as hackers unleashed a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the servers of Dyn, a major DNS host. It’s probably safe to assume that the two situations are related. Update…
Nintendo Switch Brings Brings Back a Classic Part of Old-School Gaming /header Nintendo Press Here’s something I never thought I’d be saying in 2016: Nintendo is having one hell of a year. The 127-year-old Japanese company has earned some of the splashiest press on a near-quarterly basis, and it’s well deserved. The trend started…
3. You could try to finagle the numbers. … you could intercept numbers sent over the Internet from the precincts to the county or state and change them. The media might even report your bad numbers. Machines spit out printed tapes that contain their totals. Local officials (and all those observers) will know something is…
If shady political attack ads have a Mona Lisa, it’s probably the one that slammed presidential candidate Michael Dukakis for issuing “weekend passes” to a convicted murderer named William Horton. Horton went on to commit assault, armed robbery, rape, and career assassination (on Mr. Dukakis). No attack ad this election season has come close to…
Some of the jokes that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton made at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York didn’t go over too well. (The Washington Post) NEW YORK — It was bound to be awkward from the beginning. On a night in which Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton would meet for…
END CLASS=”STORY-META__ONE” END CLASS=”STORY-META__TWO” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Enlarge this image The sentence handed down in a trial for incest in rural Valley County, Mont., pictured here, has led to a call for the judge in the trial to be impeached. Matthew Brown/AP hide caption toggle caption Matthew Brown/AP The sentence handed…
Screenshot from the GIF A few months ago, I decided to conduct an experiment: I plopped a video camera in the middle of my living room and left it running after I left the house so that I could see what my dog does when he’s home by himself. My finding was that he…