Cyber Attack Brings Down Twitter,Spotify Other Major Sites

Major websites such as Twitter, Tumbrl, Spotify, The New York Times were down for some hours on Friday due to a major cyber attack.

The pages were attacked on Friday morning, before being brought down again in the afternoon.

Security researcher, Brian Krebs said, “How was it possible to take down all those sites at once?

“Someone attacked the architecture that held them together — the domain-name system, or DNS, the technical network that redirects users from easy-to-remember addresses like theatlantic.com to a company’s actual web servers.

“The assault took the form of a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) on one of the major companies that provides other companies access to DNS. A DDoS attack is one in which an attacker floods sites “with so much junk traffic that it can no longer serve legitimate visitors.”