TradCatKnight: 'Whole Internet Will Shut Down For 24 Hours' Says VP Of Internet Security Company - How Many Of Your Favorites Sites Will Still Be Here When It Comes Back Up?

Now, US technology security vendor LogRhythm’s chief information security officer and vice president, James Carder,, is warning us that the massive Internet outages that occurred back in October, where a DDOS attack against DNS provider Dyn caused sweeping outages across the east coast, then another wave attacks took out large chunks of the west coast internet access, then the third wave hit all across America, were all just “tests.”

“In 2017, we’re going to see it hit big sometime, somewhere. If the internet goes down, financial markets will tank,” he said.

The security expert told Business Insider that all the signs were there this year, with criminals “testing missiles by shooting them into the ocean”.

“We saw the massive [distributed denial of service] against DynDNS just a couple of months ago. That DDoS attack took down sites like Twitter and Spotify for a few hours. We saw a similar DDoS hit Brian Krebs before the attack against Dyn. These were really just tests,” he said.

Carder continued on to point out “If you can prove that you can take down massive sites and a large chunk of the US internet for a few hours, a 24-hour outage seems pretty easy to do.”

Interestingly we see no mention of why the predicted entire Internet outage specifies 24 hours, or how Carder knows it would only last 24 hours, nor how providers would address and rectify the issue in order to get the Internet back up and running.
 

INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM UNDER ATTACK AS MSM’S ‘INFLUENCE’ DWINDLES

Another topic that was addressed in the Business Insider interview  was the war against Independent Journalism from mainstream, by targeting and labeling them as “fake news.”

“The power of influence is starting to shift away from main stream news outlets and I don’t think that is something those main stream outlets can afford to let happen. They will respond to the fake news threat by trying to implement some level of media control that will likely take it a little too far,” he said, citing Facebook’s post-election efforts.

“I think hackers, in the name of protecting our freedom of speech, will retaliate by knocking down a major media outlet or two.”

The 2016 presidential election campaign season as well as the Brexit vote in the UK, were two recent examples of the media dwindling influence on the public, where they predicted entire disaster scenarios in order to push their audience in a direction they wanted them to go, and completely failed as the public no longer trusts the “news” they provide.

A perfect example how this is still occurring comes by way of a recent poll about the propaganda campaign the mainstream media, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and progressives have been waging against Russia, in accusing them of “election-related” hacking.

Since the November presidential election we have noted and reported on the constant attacks against Independent Journalism, first labeling them “fake news,” then claiming they were pushing “Russian Propaganda,” and finally insisting, without offering any proof to the public, that Russia was behind the leaks into the DNC and the Clinton campaign, then released by Wikileaks.

Despite the more than a month-long campaign to blame Russia for exposing the DNC and Clinton campaign were colluding with each other, as well as dozens of mainstream media journalists and reporters, while exposing that the DNC actively worked against Bernie Sanders during the primary season, 71 percent of the American public is either “not sure” that Russia was behind the leaks, or are listed as “I don’t know/ No Opinion.

Only 29 percent of Americans actually believe the MSM’s bombardment of headlines asserting Russia was behind the leaks.

What the graph above shows, as well as the accompanying article from Morning Consult, shows once again why the mainstream media cannot be trusted. Start with their headline “Almost Half of U.S. Voters Not Sure Russia’s Behind Election-Related Hacks.”  Read more »