Cyber Risk in the Supply Chain | Dyn DDoS
The massive October 21st distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a prominent Domain Name Server (DNS) provider, resulted in many US websites going offline. The attack was very sophisticated and precisely targeted. While no customer data was breached in this event, it was still extremely impactful on the effected organizations. When the DNS provider went offline, more than 100 popular websites, such as Reddit, Twitter, Box, Spotify, PayPal, Squarespace and Amazon Web Services (AWS) were unavailable. While most of us could survive without Twitter – though barely – the unavailability of web hosting platforms such as AWS, Box and Squarespace most likely caused interruptions in numerous businesses.