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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @06:06AM
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/10/21/0544236 [soylentnews.org]
There will be no 'tightening up'. There will be no special firewalls or VPNs. It is going to get wildly worse. For a few we will figure it out and it 'wont happen to us' but everyone else will not really give a fuck.