By Andrew Gluck on Friday, 21 October 2016
Category: Financial Advisor Marketing

Denial Of Service Attack Disrupts Half The WWW -- And Our Servers

Advisor webites, AdvisorVault and other Web services are experiencing disruption related to an attack on Dyn, a vendor we use for name-server (DNS) resolution. We're not alone.About half the Internet is reportedly affected.

Denial of service attacks are a nuisance that tie up Web servers to prevent them from running properly. At no time has information on our servers been compromised.

Dyn provides DNA reosolution to Facebook, Twitter, Spotify and othe companies and the disruption is widespread. Dyn is working on it,  according to the tech press. Gizmodo says half the Internet is down!