{"id":287301,"date":"2016-12-26T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T07:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tumblr-outage-reported-in-us-and-europe-may-be-result-of-ddos-attack\/"},"modified":"2016-12-26T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T07:41:44","slug":"tumblr-outage-reported-in-us-and-europe-may-be-result-of-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tumblr-outage-reported-in-us-and-europe-may-be-result-of-ddos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tumblr outage reported in US and Europe; may be result of DDoS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tumblr appears to the target of a distributed denial of service attack, with users unable to access the blogging site.<\/p>\n

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The outage reportedly began just before 3:30pm ET, according to Down Detector. If the site manages to load anything, users receive a \u201cservice is temporarily unavailable\u201d message.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tumblr issued a jargon-filled tweet about 15 minutes into the outage, promising to fix the issue as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

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Some users are experiencing latency affecting the dashboard. We\u2019ll get it fixed ASAP.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tumblr (@tumblr) December 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Earlier on Wednesday, Tumblr hosted a question-and-answer on the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo, Syria. It\u2019s unclear if the believed DDoS attack might be related to the \u2018Answer Time\u2019 discussion.<\/p>\n

Tumblr was one of more than 80 popular websites that were hit by three separate DDoS attacks<\/a>\u00a0on Dyn DNS, the internet traffic management company, on October 21.<\/p>\n

That targeted attack was believed to have been on the Internet of Things, or the multitude of smart devices such as webcams and thermostats that connect to the internet.<\/p>\n

A DDoS attack occurs when a server is overwhelmed with traffic in a targeted attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tumblr appears to the target of a distributed denial of service attack, with users unable to access the blogging site. The outage reportedly began just before 3:30pm ET, according to Down Detector. If the site manages to load anything, users receive a \u201cservice is temporarily unavailable\u201d message.\u201d Tumblr issued a jargon-filled tweet about 15 minutes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":287302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}