Many U.S. websites disrupted as firm gets hit by cyberattack

Last Updated Oct 21, 2016 2:13 PM EDT
Twitter experienced renewed outages Friday afternoon following hours of internet disruption that took down numerous sites earlier in the morning across the U.S. East Coast.
A wave of reports of problems accessing many popular websites came after the servers at a major internet management firm were hit by a cyberattack.
New Hampshire-based Dyn said its server infrastructure suffered a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, which occurs when a