The large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) - DDoS attack

Oct. 21, 2016

First thing in the morning at work, around 10:30am, check MP website news page, Julia noticed that social link twitter showing text content instead of icon, then, she found out twitter.com was down.
And then, she looked up internet and read the article:

10:30am
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/10/21/cyber-attack-takes-down-east-coast-netflix-spotify-twitter/92507806/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/denial-of-service-web-attack-affects-amazon-twitter-others-1477056080

Follow up after the work, 9:00pm

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/10/21/cyber-attack-takes-down-east-coast-netflix-spotify-twitter/92507806/

As a small business website designer/ architect/ developer/ coder / administrator, Julia likes to catch up skills to countermeasure the attacks, specially DDoS attack, SQL injection attack. She fixed the design issue in January 2015 to countermeasure SQL injection attacks, she learned the important lesson to countermeasure the attacks, and the important to put attacks and countermeasures in website design.