A local company left websites down across parts of the east coast. Good afternoon, im erin fehlau. The manchester based company dyn took about two hours to get things back up and running. Wmurs Kristen Carosa is live in manchester with the latest. Reporter staff here say things are back up and running around 9 20 this morning. Right now they are trying together as much information as they can to figure out what happened here. Says its server infrastructure was hit by a ddos cyber attack, which stands for distributed denial of service which disrupted their systems. Dyn is a donating best Domain Name System provider and hosts twitter in spotify, which also experienced problems this morning because of the attack. The executive Vice President says they worked quickly to resolve the issue this morning, and things are back up and questions or concerns to contact her Technical Support team. Live in manchester, Kristen Carosa, wmur news 9. Erin i do. Scattered showers moving in across the gran
Being hit with a distributed denial of Service Attack repeatedly, either by someone testing them, maybe to see what would happen before elections and this is a pretest, or theyre actually threatening them for ransom. Reporter a ddos attack is used by hackers and easy to carry out. He says this type of attack send large volumes of traffic to specific servers to shut them down. Anything on the internet that can be used in mass to attack Companies Like dyn or other content providers with so much traffic that they cant handle the band width and the average consumer cant browse spotify or twitter today. Reporter he says theres no way to prevent a cyber attack like this and says it latest be hard to track down whos responsible. To trace an attack like this, you have to find the command and control serve esh thats kicking off the bot nets, and in the dark web we found many of these for rent. Doing it, where i can pay for 300 for 10 minutes of a ddos attack. Reporter we have not been able to s
Like we do. Now, wmur news 9 this morning. Amy good morning, New Hampshire. 6 00 on this saturday, october 29th. Im amy coveno. Well get to our top stories in just a minute, first, josh judge is in the Weather Center with a look at the forecast. Hi, josh. Josh good morning, its saturday. We had rain yesterday and now theres more moving in from the west as you can see here on the latest satellite imagery and radar and the last two hours because its about to rain, perhaps, where you are. Maybe it already is and notice a little bit of mixed precipitation possible in the higher terrain and areas to the north. A quick burst of rain here, but more showers off to the west could move in through the mid day and early afternoon hours. Temperatures in the 30s to lower 40s and headed to the 40s and milder today after 40s the last couple of days, some today and thats a trend that will continue in the next few days, well talk about the warmer air pushing in this direction coming up in your full fore
And vanessa, tonight we heard a message that part antiestablishment and definitely antitrump. The boston common, Common Ground for a large group of antitrump protests. Some voted for clinton others for Green Party Candidate jill stein, jan smith skipped voting because she didnt like any of the candidates. All the people who are dissatisfied need to come opinion that will be the only thats going to fix anything. Reporter the chanting signs addressing a wide range of issues and causes, socialism, black lives matter, climate change, immigrant and womens reproductive rights all of it under the antitrump umbrella. Hes racist, hes sexist he says whatever he wants and gets away with it and it brink of just so much destruction when all the votes are counted trump will likely fall short in the popular vote. Do you really think though that youll be able to change anything . I mean its not like we can do anything to change the election ruths but we can work from the ground un. Reporter state and
And vanessa, tonight we heard a message that part antiestablishment and definitely antitrump. The boston common, Common Ground for a large group of antitrump protests. Some voted for clinton others for Green Party Candidate jill stein, jan smith skipped voting because she didnt like any of the candidates. All the people who are dissatisfied need to come opinion that will be the only thats going to fix anything. Reporter the chanting signs addressing a wide range of issues and causes, socialism, black lives matter, climate change, immigrant and womens reproductive rights all of it under the antitrump umbrella. Hes racist, hes sexist he says whatever he wants and gets away with it and it brink of just so much destruction when all the votes are counted trump will likely fall short in the popular vote. Do you really think though that youll be able to change anything . I mean its not like we can do anything to change the election ruths but we can work from the ground un. Reporter state and