http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/304859-attackers-target-fail-to-down-candidate-sites
Researchers say "unsophisticated actors" tried — and failed — to take down the websites of both major presidential nominees just ahead of Election Day. In a 16-hour stretch between Sunday and Monday, the security firm Flashpoint detected four distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against the websites of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton. The attacks used the same open-source tool [Mirai] that briefly knocked Twitter and The New York Times offline on Oct. 21.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/campaign-websites-under-attack/506942/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/08/was_iot_ddos_attack_just_a_dry_run_for_election_day/
(Score: 3, Funny) by nethead on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:44AM
The Outage mail-list is reporting that Citizenship and Immigration website for Canada ( http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/ [cic.gc.ca] ) is giving a 500 error. I can confirm at 21:44 PST.
How did my SN UID end up over 3 times my /. UID?
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:48AM
top kek!
(Score: 2, Informative) by nethead on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:04AM
I should add a link: https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages [nether.net]
How did my SN UID end up over 3 times my /. UID?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:56AM
Hey hey! Making America Great Already! :D