Major DDoS attack on Dyn DNS knocks Spotify, Twitter, Github, Etsy, and more offline

Update: Dyn says services were restored at 9:36 A.M. Eastern time, and I can now connect to the affected websites again—which indicates the two events were indeed related. 

Every morning, I sit down at my PC with a cup of coffee, crank some tunes on Spotify, and scour r/techsupportgore for gnarly PC disaster pics to tweet out. Not this morning, because it appears a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack targeting DNS host Dyn has knocked a big chunk of the Internet offline.

The Domain Name System (DNS) converts human-readable URLs (like "pcworld.com") to their underlying numeric IP addresses. Dyn hasn't confirmed that the outages and its DDoS attack are related, but it seems likely.

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