Did you hear that NASDAQ was down last week for 3 hours? Shut down because of a "glitch"?
And Google?
And Amazon?
Ebay?
And the New York Times?
Concern is mounting over the frequency of attacks on websites in recent days.
Today alone the following major websites have been down:
- Capitol One
- Netflix
- Bank of America
- Home Depot
- ESPN
- Comcast
- Pandora
- Walmart
- Go Daddy
- AT & T
From USA Today:
But the incident had all the earmarks of the three waves of denial-of-service attacks that have bedeviled U.S. financial institutions, including stock brokerages, since last September.
An Iranian hacking collective — Cyber Fighters of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam — has claimed credit for orchestrating sophisticated attacks that have overwhelmed the expensive security systems U.S. banks have put into place to keep their online banking services up and secure.There's a lot of crazy stuff going on in the USA Today article above.
Forbes has concerns:
By some estimates, network-based attacks, such as DDOS (short for Distributed Denial of Services), which have the ability to take down large computing networks, have increased by 700 percent this year.You can see Akamai's real time web monitor of hacker attacks here.
Targeted DDOS attacks against internet service providers, domain registrars, web hosting providers, and individual businesses have been known to cripple thousands of websites simultaneously for extended periods of time.
Also JohnGaltFla.com wonders why web traffic was down 40% on August 22.
Daily Mail UK:
A wave of denial-of-service attacks started last September, knocking several banks offline including Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and PNC Bank.
The attacks were attributed to Cyber Fighters of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, an Iranian hacking collective.
Excellent post. I like the links.
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