Network attack on America on the part of the Internet of things, unattended. And came seemingly out of fashion Pokemon put of financial records. About this episode Вести.net.
One of the most powerful attacks on the Internet infrastructure at the time brought down dozens of Internet global services. The first attack on American network segment fell on Friday morning, and suffered a primarily East coast. Experienced interruptions or were not available generally to such services as Twitter, the video service Netflix, Paypal, music services Spotify and SoundCloud, sites The New York Times and CNN. Suffered the largest online store, as well as the cloud provider Amazon.
It was a very powerful DDoS denial of service when the server cannot cope with the flow about, garbage requests. But do not beat sites — the main goal of the company was chosen Dyn. It infrastructure for the network business that services the domain name service — DNS, translating IP addresses into understandable domain names.
crippling Dyn attacking and hit all of his clients. In two hours employees of Dyn was able to cope with the problem, but then followed a second wave of attacks, and after some time, and the third, and the consequences are already felt and the West coast, where the majority of Internet projects in Silicon valley.
the nature of the attack was quite unusual, almost always use so-called botnets, networks of hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of infected zombie computers that are on the team and covered the purpose of garbage requests. Here is the place for custom computers took up Internet of things: a huge number of network routers, web cameras and other devices that are normally connected to high-speed communication channels.
turning this not too smart iron botnet specializiruetsya virus Mirai. The irony is that the infection is a simple selection of passwords. The fact that very often, when connecting to network equipment, people do not change the factory settings, and the virus uses a simple dictionary for the selection of admin-admin, root-deafult or even 1111.
What would make the attacking and who they are — is unclear. More precisely, there are different versions. The fact that several DDoS of the same nature a month ago had a blog of well-known security expert Brian Krebs — he investigated the activities of persons arrested by the Israeli DDoS extortionists and role in solving this group of Criminals American company that tired to deal with hackers and just opened them myself.
20 Oct Krabs together with employees of Dyn released a study on this topic. On the other hand, has already turned up some group of hackers “the New order”, which claims that the last attack — a test of strength for the Americans, but their main goal — Russia. Another plausible version of the revenge of some forces that support Julian Assange, that he turned off Internet access to the Ecuadorian Embassy where he is hiding.
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the Mobile games have brought to the developers at Niantic Labs over 600 million dollars in the first 90 days since the release. This is a new record of the mobile market.
the Previous leader — the game Candy Crush Saga took more than 200 days to achieve such a result. Other popular game Puzzle &Dragons and Clash of Clans has reached such a level of profit only after 400 and 500 days, respectively.
in Addition, Pokemon Go broke the record for the number of installations during the first week in the AppStore. The game was released in early July and by the end of the month had an audience of 40 million weekly users in the US alone. Data on Google Play yet, but we know that with the launch of “Pokémon” is associated a two-fold increase in the number of application installations in July and August of this year on iOS, which previously told Apple CEO Tim cook.
According to App Annie, a company that is dedicated to analysis of market of mobile apps, users spend in the Pokemon Go about the same time that in 19 of the most popular mobile applications put together. The ratio is about 45 to 55 percent, respectively.
primarily, this is due to the fact that the whole game mechanism is constructed in such a way that the player spent in it more time. For example, unlike many other mobile games Pokemon Go player requires constant movement: to walk the town looking for pokemon and battles. The app is not running minimized his need to keep open.
But what is most surprising — despite this, people still spend on other apps the same time as before the release of “Pokémon”. We can say that the main merit of developers is that they were able to get people to play mobile phone when they usually do not.
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