I just tried to access my Paypal account, and apparently it is down.
Companies including Twitter, Netflix, PayPal and eBay appeared to have their websites broken. And other services like PlayStation Network appeared to be hit by a major outage:
Update: Internet service appears to stablize after waves of cyber attacks
(Score: 1) by nobu_the_bard on Friday October 21 2016, @09:20PM
Also mentioned on Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-idUSKCN12L1ME [reuters.com]
Not a lot of meat in the article, but it does have a confused description of DNS and a random picture of Wireshark ??