KEY TAKEAWAYS 1. On October 21, 2016, a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Dyn DNS impacted the availability of a number of sites concentrated in the Northeast US and, later, other areas of the country. Impacted sites included: PayPal, Twitter, Reddit, GitHub, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and RuneScape. 2. While the attacks were still ongoing, Flashpoint was able to confir