Waves of cyber attacks hit Netflix, Spotify, Twitter

FEMA, DHS, cybersecurity professionals, and the average person need to be ready for the worst. If you haven't done so, now is the perfect time to back up any data you cherish FROM the cloud. Cloud is POV, but objectively just on someone else's hardware.

It's been proven many times before that a cyber attack can cripple the country.

Pretty Impressive Cyber Attack started at 1am here last night here affecting Time Warner/Roadrunner still a few of the news services that I use are down and so is Twitter.

So the issue with DDOS attacks is that it is incredibly simple yet effective solution to get a message across. It doesn't cripple or destroy, it only it slows down. This means it is only a surface area attack. This will not damage infrastructure.

The Mirai botnet is an IOT botnet so it can spread incredibly fast as most IOT devices do not take into account security. However, the IOT botnet spreads over IPV6 so disabling IPV6 Native on your routers will fix this (Simple solution but nobody ever does this making its growth potential incredibly quick)

This was incredibly impressive on the scale however, it was poorly implemented as this attack would have taken literally HOURS to be effective depending on the (Time To Live of the DNS Entry). Giving Dynect time to combat this.

So the question is, why couldn't they? a DDOS attack has a huge surface area, so no normal firewall configuration will be adequate to combat these types of attack. However countermeasures can be put into place by planning and reevaluation at the architecture side.