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    Worldwide Attack on the Internet Infrastructure Causes Major Outages

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    Almost every major service that isn't part of a major internet provider seemed to be having issues. As such, Google and Facebook appeared to stay up – but almost everything else was down

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    Twitter is down again! 

    Twitter felt the sting of downtime Friday. In the two-hour window of the initial impact, it said, "various Twitter domains including twitter.com may have been inaccessible for users in some regions, due to failures resolving particular DNS hostnames."

    In a denial-of-service attack, targeted computers get hit with an overwhelming volume of bogus data requests, which dramatically slows down access and in extreme cases can completely cut off legitimate traffic.

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    The outage, mainly affecting the northeast U.S., seems to have been brought on by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, an Internet company that hosts a variety of widely used platforms, though it is currently unclear why this happened.

    Writing on its website Friday morning, Dyn said it had been the subject of an attack, adding that “some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time.” Service has since been restored, according to DNS status reports.

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    Dyn, the affected company, indicated earlier that the issue had been fixed. But then it reported again that it had "begun monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue".

    It still isn't clear where that cyber attack originated or when or how it was likely to stop.

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    A list of major websites who have been affected:

    Twitter,

    Reddit,

    Spotify,

    Paypal,

    SoundCloud,

    Netflix

    Paypal

    Ebay

    Playstation Network

    Airbnb

    Amazon

    Github

    and even service providers including Comcast, Cox, Time Warner Cable and AT&T were also affected. 

     

    and several other platforms appeared to go dark or experience problems

    A Ways to Work Program Update from Metropolitan Family Service

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    Metropolitan Family Service has provided the Ways to Work Program in the Portland Metropolitan area since 2004 and Southwest Washington since 2011.  We have provided 430 loans, and lent almost 2 million dollars since starting the program.  

    We have experienced many changes over the last year, as we have transitioned away from being a member of a national program model to operating our own program in partnership with a local credit union, Point West.  We continue to have strong interest from program participants to fill our program slots.  

    As of October 10th we have filled all of our slots in the program.  We do not yet know when more slots will be available in the program but are hopeful it will be sometime in 2017.  We are continuing to encourage participants to call in so that we can add them to our program waitlist as it helps us to know program demand when we speak to funders.  

    We will continue to keep you updated on our program status as things develop over the coming months.  In the meantime, please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions at all.  

    Metropolitan Family Service | www.metfamily.org 
    1808 SE Belmont Street | Portland, OR 97214
    503-232-0007 Ext. 103 | fax 503-334-1239

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