Web Attacks struck out Spotify and Twitter

Several major online services, including Twitter and Spotify, were closed on Friday in parts of the United States because their ISP (gateway) was knocked out by a cyber attack.

Besides Twitter and Spotify, Netflix and Visa were also among those affected.

Internet service provider Dyn informs that company’s server infrastructure in the United States was subjected to a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service), just after 13:00 o’clock Norwegian time.

DDoS attack is that attackers overload a website excessively in such a large scale that the website becomes unavailable.

Dyns server system returned to normal again later on Friday.

Source: NTB scanpix / Norway Today