If the internet was incredibly slow for you this morning when browsing certain websites, or if you were having trouble posting your “wakeup” tweet to Twitter, we now know the root cause. A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was carried out against Dyn, which provides DNS service to a number of big name sites including Amazon,

Source: Hot Hardware – Massive DDoS Attack On DNS Provider Dyn Slows Twitter, Amazon, Github To A Crawl