This weekend, a massive DDoS attack has rendered some of the world's most important websites inoperative, among which are Twitter, Spotify and PayPal, among many others.
A DDoS attack seeks to saturate the connections of a website or a server in order to render them inoperative.
Among the services affected by this attack are:
- CNN.
- Github.
- Netflix.
- PayPal.
- Playstation Network.
- Reddit.
- Spotify.
- Starbucks.
- Twitter.
- Xbox.com.
The U.S. government and the FBI have announced that they are already investigating the attack that, For now, the authors are unknown.