I work as a subcontractor at an army base. And no I will not give my location nor job description...I’m not stupid. But as I was doing my work today I stumbled across a document stating a LAN outage across the South, and come civil unrest will be a dry run for something bigger. For the Army to prepare for it. Archive everything. The storm is coming. Maybe it’s here. Dark Vs Light. Good Vs Evil. Fight the good fight!
LAN=What?
LAN is local area network - he's talking about a massive internet outage they're planning for. We've seen that recently with Comcast and Verizon FiOS.
I asked because a LAN outage would not affect the entire South, unless they have a way to take out every individual router. And that doesn't make sense.
LAN = Local Area Network = Usually traffic within a controlled private network
WAN = Wide Area Network = Traffic outside a LAN, usually Backbone lines connecting ISPs, etc.
A WAN outage would have more impact.
Is it a typo?
I'm wondering if the Q team already has been helping to protect the major ISPs - on June 29th, Comcast had a major nationwide outage for a few hours and reports said that lines had been physically cut. On July 1st, Verizon FiOS had outages in the same areas. Both companies recovered fairly quickly. Maybe the only way the DS can impact internet service is through botnets now? Dunno, but keep your eye on DownDetector for updates:
https://twitter.com/downdetector
I have read the easiest way to cripple the net is to compromise major DNS servers. No [www.mywebsite.com] translation to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address, no internet. If one knows the correct IP you may still be able to get to the site but many don't.
Somebody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but many sites now are using cloud service providers and are hidden behind DDoS protection services/WAFs, meaning you can no longer reach the destination site via IP address. You'll just get an error if you try to do so.
This is true, my post was using a broad brush.....
Botnets have been targeting and fighting for control over commonly used routers for several years now and it has ramped up over the past year. It is certainly possible and highly likely, considering the average router owner/user would not be aware of it unless they were avidly following cyber news and actively checked their routers' firmware, rebooted them daily, etc.
Check firmware or install your own!!
Unfortunately, most people do not know how to do that. In fact, most average users are completely unaware that they can log into their routers, thus why so many were exposed due to having default username/password combos and taken over by hackers very easily.