that information overwhelmed the dyn system, bringing access to those sites to a virtual halt. dyn says the issue was resolved within hours, but the attack highlights a new vulnerability. >> this is a very serious virus. it's a malware virus. it's open source, so anyone can grab it and do bad with it. >> reporter: the attack raising a red flag in homes where garage doors, lights, and thermostats are all smart devices. >> you're opening yourself up to who knows what. >> reporter: dyn says no personal data was stolen and no cameras were activated but some experts fear it's only a matter of time. >> companies aren't putting any emphasis on security obviously. as a matter of fact, most of the default passwords that are being put on these devices are admin and password. >> reporter: to protect yourself, check connected devices around your house and update the software. change passwords on every device, not just and buy updated products with the latest security features. to stay a step ahead of an evolving threat. jo ling kent, nbc news, manchester, new hampshire. >>> turning oversea

josh: kristen carosa is in manchester where at this hour dyn says those attacks are still happening. reporter: staff here have been working all day to figure out what happened. they have not spoken to us but we did speak to a cyber security expert to find out more about these times of attacks. a cyber attack on dyn, a manchester based internet management company, caused issues across the east coast with popular websites. >> dyn is like a traffic cop that helps guide our browsers to content providers like twitter and spotify who need a lot of band width. reporter: friday morning dyn sent out an alert saying someone had attacked their infrastructure on the east coast. being hit with a distributed denial of service attack repeatedly, either by someone testing them, maybe to see what would happen before elections and this is a pretest, or they're actually threatening them for ransom. reporter: a d-dos attack is used by hackers and easy to carry out. he says this type of attack send large volumes of traffic to specific servers to shut them down. >> anything on the internet that can be use

dyn is calling this well-planned and sophisticated.e're seeing it in three separate waves throughout the day. this is clearly a playbook being rolled out by somebody with ill intent and we're all feeling the brunt of it on the east coast of the united states today. >> planning to be watching some netflix or something tonight, you might want to make other plans just in case. >> no netflix and chill tonight. >> go see a movie at the theater maybe. >> right. >> thanks for explaining that. >>> up next, we've been teasing this. stunning developments in the bridgegate trial in new jersey. after two and a half years of silence, jurors and the whole world finally hearing from governor christie's former deputy chief of staff, bridget kelly, what she's revealing about the plan to close the george washington bridge as political rretribution. >> no knowledge or involvement in this issue, in its planning or its execution. and i am stunned by the abject stupidity that was shown here. you know, that reminds me of geico's 97% customer satisfaction rat

dyn was hit multiple times systems and customers which include twitter and netflix. kristen carosa has details. reporter: staff here at dyn have been working all day long trying to figure out exactly what happened, important to note diep has not directly spoken to us since these attacks. so here's what we have right now. the cyber attacks against the manchester based internet management companies caused issue as cross the east coast with popular websites twitter and spotify. cyber security expert and snoop wall c.e.o. gary malesky says a ddos attack is a common method used by hackers and it's easy to carry out. this type after tack sends large volumes of traffic to specific servers to shut them down. he says there's no way to prevent a cyber attack like this, and he tells us it will be hard to crack down who is responsible. control server that's kicking off the bot nets, and in the dark web we found many of these for rent. so it's hard to tell which one is doing it, where you can actually pay $300 for 10 minutes of a ddos attack. reporter: again, dyn has not directly

shelley: again dyn has not , spoken to us since the attacks . however, the white house is calling the disruption malicious. on to commitment 2016 coverage. keeping their focus on key battleground states. and for the third time in three months, donald trump's running mate, governor mike pence, rallied for votes in new hampshire. wmur's cherise leclerc has more on pence's visit. cherise: the trump-pence ticket is looking to gain momentum in new hampshire after the wmur granite state poll released earlier this week shows hillary clinton leading15 a great victory all across the state of new hampshire and all across the united states of america. cherise: standing and exit or's townhall, governor mike pence appealed to voters to support the republican ticket while attacking the latest round of hillary clinton e-mails, involving the terrorist attack were killed. cherise: a poll released this week shows the trump-pence ticket has ground to make up among voters in new hampshire, with secretary leading by about -- secretary clinton leading by about 14 poi

tens of millions of these devices send bogus services to dyn a web service provideer that allows you access to sites like twitter, airbnb and spotify. that overwhelmed the system bringing access to the sites to a halt. dyn says the issue was resolved in hours but it highlights a new vulnerability. >> this is a serious virus. with it. >> reporter: the attack raising a red flag in homes where garage doors, lights and thermostats are all smart devices. >> you're opening yourself up to, you know, who knows what. >> reporter: dyn says no personal data was stolen and no cameras activated but some fear it's only a matter of time. >> companies aren't putting any emphasis on security obviously. as a matter of fact, most of the default passwords that are being put ons the devices are ad yourself, check connected devices around your house and update the software, change passwords on every device not just your router, and buy updated products with the latest security features. jolene kent, nbc news, manchester, new hampshire. >> krystal: not a good idea to make your password the word "password."

. >> the attack was aimed at dyn, an -- a tech company based in new hampshire that serves as an internet switchboard and allows people to connect to websites. it crippled domain name servers, the so-called address book for the internet, essentially overloading it. the hack will cost major corporations dearly. it's too early to tell who's responsible. some say based on the methods and magnitude of the attack, it may be russian in origin. but one senior u.s. intelligence official experts tell nbc news, this is a classic case of internet vandalism, and likely not state-sponsored. >> there are a host of adversaries that can launch these types of attacks, and we've got to make sure that we have a resilient network that is able to withstand these types of probes. >> reporter: with the largest outage in the northeast, a second wave spread west. tens of millions couldn't check their banking accounts or log on to local news. in los angeles, epic interactive sent with paypal and twitter down, nobody could work. >> i think we should be concerned. it's one thing when there's an attack. it's another

for the first time we're hearing from dyn with what happ. reaction. >> dyn says the three waves of cyber attacks on its infrastructure were carefully carried out. >> it actually got bigger, more distributed, more complex, more sophisticated. >> it was targeted multiple times with distributed denial of service attack. the first hit was the east coast. the second was world-wide. >>, but it was so distributed into actually tens of millions of discrete ip addresses, hitting us directly. >> netflix, spotify and twitter, kyle york says it's difficult to figure out where the virus came from. >> this particular attack was due to open source malware called the mari bot-net and it basically affects internet and thing device, think your thermostat, dvc, smart tv web-cams. >> new york says the virus used people's devices to attack dyn. they see dozens of attacks like this each week, but just not on this scale. >> we practice and run play books. we have the most talented net networkers in the world. >> it's hard to tell, but dyn is looking to improve sec

the hackers' target, the east-coast host of those sites, dyn inc. in new hampshire they were hit , with what's known as a denial are used as bots to overwhelm a site with queries. dyn said in a statement our engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue. federal authorities are on the case. >> i know that the department of homeland security, that is the us government agency that is responsible for monitoring our security in cyberspace and coordinating with the public and private sector to protect us interests in cyberspace, is monitoring the situation. >> this is just the most recent ta according to u.s. intelligence, email hacks were made by the russian government. but who's behind friday's cyber-sabotage? >> i don't have any more information to share about who may be responsible for that malicious activity. >> finding the answers not likely to be quick, or easy. chuck sivertsen, abc news, new york. patrick: a contractor accused of the largest theft of classified government documents in u.s. history is ordered to stay in custody. prosec

manchester based dyn got hit their customers, which include twitter and netflix. dyn sent out an alert saying someone had sent a distributed denial of service attack on their infrastructure. this type of cyberattack sends large volumes of traffic to specific servers to shut them down. >> we recommend that folks take a look, the types of devices they have in their home, whether they are internet connected, web cameras, dvr's, or the shelley: again dyn has not , spoken to us since the attacks . however, the white house is calling the disruption malicious. on to commitment 2016 coverage. we are less than three weeks to the election and the presidential candidates are keeping their focus on key battleground states. and for the third time in three months, donald trump's running mate, governor mike pence, rallied for votes in new hampshire. wmur's cherise leclerc has more cherise: the trump-pence ticket is looking to gain momentum in new hampshire after the wmur granite state poll released earlier this week shows hillary clinton leading by 15 percentage points. >> we ar

hackers went after dyn, a company. executives at dyn say the infection came from thousands of devices infected with malware. >> it will go on your device and launch and attack. dyn just happened to be the target. todd: dyn says it may be impossible to tell who's responsible for the attack. antoinette: not exactly ideal conditions. but thousands braved the wet weather along the banks of the charles river. it's the 52nd head of the charles regatta. if you miss the excitement saturday, you can still catch the races from 8:00 to 5:00 today. announcer: now, your stormteam 5 antoinette: you know, it's hard enough rowing as it is. they're dealing with headwinds, but no rain. kelly ann: you have to look at the positive. there is no rain. the sun will be breaking out. it won't be quite as chilly. those winds really going to have an impact on the rowers and really how it's feeling as you're heading outside. they're tough. todd: did you notice what antoinette did as a headwind for the head of the charles? antoinette: look at me.

. >> the attack was aimed at dyn, a tech company based in new people to log on to websites. it cripples d n s or domain network servers, the overloading the internet. the attacks will cost major corporations dearly. it is too early to tell who is responsible. some day second based on the magnitude of the attacks, it may be russian in orgies but one senior u.s. intelligence official and other cyber experts tell nbc news this is a classic case of internet valuing catholic church and >> there are a hosts of adversaries that can launch these types of attacks and we have to make sure that we have a resilient network able to with stand these types of probes. >> reporter: with the largest outage in the northeast a second wave spread west. tens of millions could not check their banking accounts or log on to local news. in los angeles, epic interactative sent their employees home. with pay pal and twitter down, concerned. there is one thing when this is an attack and another thing when an entire day goes by and the company involved can't fix it. >> dyn says it is fighting several ver

hackers went after dyn. it's a manchester-based company executives at dyn say the attack came from tens of millions of interconnected devices infected with malware. >> literally, the virus will go into people's homes. it will go onto your device and it will launch an attack at some target. dyn, an infrastructure company to some of the largest web properties and enterprises in the world, just happened to be the target. todd: dyn says it may be impossible to tell who is responsible for the attack. antoinette: thousands are braving the blustery conditions along the banks of the charles river. you are looking liveht regatta, a rowing competition that is world-renowned. dozens of olympians are racing, including the eight who just competed in rio. the races are underway right now until 5:00 this evening. todd: yesterday it was rain and overcast. today it's sun but rain as well. kelly ann: wind will be a major factor. even though the temperature will antoinette: it doesn't feel like it. kelly ann: and that water's

. >> the attack was aimed at dyn, an attack company based in new hampshire that serves as an internet switch board and allows people to connect to websites. it crippled domain name servers, the internet, essentially overloading it. the hack will cost major corporations dearly. it's too early to tell who's responsible. some say based on the methods and magnitude of the attack, it may be russian in origin. but one senior u.s. intelligence official and other cyber experts tell nbc news, this is a classic case of internet vandalism, and likely not state-sponsored. >> there are a host of adversaries that can launch these types of to make sure that we have a rezil gent network that is able to withstand these types of probes. >> reporter: with the largest outage in the northeast, a second wave spread west. tens of millions couldn't check their banking accounts or log on to local news. in los angeles, epic interactive sent employees home. with paypal and twitter down, nobody could work. >> i think we should be concerned. it's one thing when there's an attack. it's another when an entire day g

shortly after, service had been restored when dyn said there was another denial of service attack. denial of service is when a web site is intentionally overwhelmed by traffic from many sources. no word on who is responsible. new tonight another alleged victim has come forward. newscenter 5's david bienick is live in lawrence. david? david: jc, good evening. yes, detective say the girl in this case remembered an important detail. the apartment had a red curtain. that is the apartment on the second floor where you see a red curtain. that allow detectives to make an arrest. wearing a jail jumpsuit and hanging his head, 21-year-old angel mateo was arraigned on charges he kidnapped and raped a 13-year-old w walking home from school. according to a police report, mateo initially denied having sex with anyone then said it was , consensual and that he thought the girl was 18. >> i just want to say the victim, although dealing with a location of the incident. david one of the details the : girl remembered is that her attacker wore a gps tracker around his ankle. according to court document

dyn manages website domains. the company says service now should be back to normal. according to tech news forum -- no news on who is responsible for that attack. doug: juli mcdonald is live from lawrence district court where the suspect in a shocking crime is being arraigned. juli: the man accused of court. he is facing charges of kidnapping and aggravated statutory rate. police say he grabbed the 13-year-old, drag the student to an apartment on phillips street. that teenager was allegedly sexually assaulted for two hours and got away. he was already on pretrial probation with an ankle bracelet, that just wrapping up in the past 15 minutes. stay with us as we bring you new video from the courtroom. he will return for a bail hearing on november 8. juli mcdonald, wcvb newscenter 5 . antoinette: thank you. right now, this man charged with shooting a 13-year-old in we learned more about what happened and the suspect who is a known gang member to police who goes by another name. during the arraignment, take a look. 19-year-old christian garcia was out of sight in the cou

nichole: dyn has resolved much of the problem and is working to tie up loose ends. the tech expert i spoke to describe this as "the worst denial of service attack" he is hacks -- copycat hacks it very soon. nichole berlie, wcvb newscenter 5. maria: honestly, i have problems all morning long. ben: i didn't have any problems. maria: you are a lucky man. ben: i was also hanging out with 11-month-old. mike? mike: i had no issues. i should not say that out loud to read that means a hacker will him after me. maria: no. mike: that alwaap for connecticut and rhode island. but we still have flooded visor is until 7:30 p.m. -- why? the rain has an lining up in a straight line and look at how these looms of moisture keep working northward. we have two inches of rain in some spots. you can go a few miles either way and see almost no rain. i do expect a lot of this to be working into the eastern part of the state in a few hours. . just to the west of worcester. that line is pushing up through nashua. we are seeing pretty good downpours in a couple areas. then you travel used of

were unable to access dyn's popular clients like spotify, twitter, airbnb and etsy. >> the attack is likely not state sponsored, says an expert. this family's home is filled with devices connected to the so-called internet of things. >> we have security cameras, lights that you control. music systems. controlling their internet connections, even the garage door. >> a contradiction, you're doing something to keep yourself safe, and you're opening yourself up to who knows what. it's disconcerting and frightening, especially with kids. attacks on smart home devices are expected to affect more and more consumers. currently there an an estimated use. at companies like dyn work to fend off future cyberattacks, they advise consumers to think carefully when they connect any device. >> think of a domain name or a website as the storefront of a brick-and-mortar store and think about all the things that go into the store. the electricity, the plumbing, the flooring. if you think about it in a physical way, behind every website on the internet, it's it in. >> we keep our entire lives on this dev

dyn says it may be impossible to tell who is responsible for the attack. banks of the charles river. it's the 52nd head of the charles regatta, a rowing competition renowned around the world. dozens of olympians are racing, including the us women's eight, who just won gold in rio. races are underway right now gh todd: those pictures look beautiful. >> they do look gorgeous. is this ongoing going to warm it up a bit? >> it will not be a huge warm-up. it will not be that cool and cloudy condition that we saw yesterday and showers. >> the big question is to rake or not? >> you can if you want to from the wind. the wind advisory is in effect. wind gusts at 45 miles an hour possible. strong enough wind that downed trees are not completely out of the question. we got many reports of downed power lines. it is nice and clear on the radar. clouds pushing off the coast. sunshine as we move through th factor is the wind. because they are relatively close to each other, we see the wind moving into the area. that is why it is so strong in the region. the big question i

the manchester based company dyn took about two hours to get things back up and running. wmur's kristen carosa is live in manchester with the latest. reporter: staff here say things are back up and running around 9:20 this morning. right now they are trying together as much information as they can to figure out what happened here. says its server infrastructure was hit by a ddos cyber attack, which stands for distributed denial of service which disrupted their systems. dyn is a donating best domain name system provider and hosts twitter in spotify, which also experienced problems this morning because of the attack. the executive vice president says they worked quickly to resolve the issue this morning, and things are back up and questions or concerns to contact her technical support team. live in manchester, kristen carosa, wmur news 9. erin: i do. scattered showers moving in across the granite state. and some big temperature changes are coming our way with talk of some snow this weekend. we look out onto the queen city with a whole lot of fog right now. hayley: no worrie

now dyn says it is defending against a third wave of such attacks. we don't know if they're from the same entity but he latest internet player so say we've been hit. back to the pay to play charges, are they having much fallout here, doing any damage to the hillary clinton campaign? political watcher aaron mcpipe on that. what do you think? >> i think that pay-to-play access is not a new concept. what is interesting is the timing because she was just getting ready to run for president, and if she weren't running for president it wouldn't be that big of a deal but she is looking to recommended the united states on a world stage, and i think the implications that it will have are more for a potential clinton administration going forward next year, the decision she makes on the world stage and the decisions they state department underneath her would face. you'll see more reporting whether or not there are problems in some of the decisions she is make because of a conflict of interest there. so i don't think it's going to affect the next three weeks the

i don't know how you say dyn. could that be the case, such a small player could end up affecting major websites and the internet frucinfrastructure tha are talking about? >> absolutely. something like this happened last year to netflix. it shows the interconnectedness of the internet. you see the risks of doing business and operating services on the internet that one company can impact many others. >> you know a lot more about this than i do. i was thinking about the relationship thrks commonality of the servers that are used by so many different companies. is there a way to diversify that? would that help to some degree? >> there are strategies and companies that provide mitigation services, different tools and technologies to do it. the real fundamental thing is that there is no stopping it. when you think back there was investigative journalist hit with overwhelming around 600 giga bytes. stopping that completely isn't going to happen. there are only ways of managing. >> i will state the obvious. this shows how

dyn said no personal data was stolen. it was unprecedented and some experts say it's only a matter of time until the next attack. >> companies aren't putting any emphasis on security obviously. as a matter of fact, most of the default passwords that are admin and password. >> one piece of device is to know which devices connect to the internet, everything from thermostats to garage doors. change any default passwords and make sure the software is up to date. >>> we hit an official high of 79 today at dia. this is one of the 10 hottest octobers on record in denver with a week still left to go in the month. ski resorts and businesses in cooler weather and maybe a little snow. loveland tweeted a photo this afternoon asking for some help from mother nature. kathy's forecast is coming up in a few minutes. >>> early mail ballot returns are turned in to get sucked into the numbers. it's more useful to look at year over year trends. spoiler alert, things look good for colorado's democrats this year. here are the numbers. turnout

dyn says all sites should be back to normal now. a portion of nevada so the list of place is affected. >> krystal: people in japan still feeling the aftershocks from a magnitude 6.6 earthquake. there you see the camera shaking a little bit when this was happening. a concert hall damaged some roofs, the walls of buildings. there you really see it when it hit. it crumbled near the suspended and more than 6,000 households losing electricity. some areas without gas and tap water. and the epicenter was in the central part and its depth was about seven miles give or take. a seismologist warns a bigger earthquake may occur this week. looks like they're not out of the woods. >> kyndell: especially with that magnitude of earthquake something they're going be because you are from california. >> kyndell: i am. 6.6 nos joke i have to be honest. >> kelly: and it's scary because it wasn't that lock ago that japan had a massive earthquake followed by a major tsunami. so i'm sure everyone is still on edge after that. >> krystal: you know what, in o

hackers targeted dyn, a company based in manchester, new hampshire. they unleashed a ddos, designated distributed denial of service, overwhelming the websites. the f.b.i. and department of homeland security are both involved in the investigation. todd: the joke normally goes, road. but what about when an emu crosses the road? antoinette: well, it's to get to the other side, right? todd: maybe. antoinette: we should ask this emu in arizona. it ended up on the highway crossing the road and ending up on the road shoulder. see, that was the answer. an arizona agriculture official was able to remove the animal. no word on how the emu got to the road. todd: i was reading there's no emu farms in that area. there's no good reason w would have been there. antoinette: someone must have a pet emu and is looking for it right now. perhaps he lost track of his gps and got lost. antoinette: he needs waze. todd: we'll have the opposite of their weather. kelly: almost tropical. temperatures in the 60's this morning and humidity as well. it's very muggy as you're headi

dyn confirmed the attack and says all sites should be back is investigating who is behind it. "i know the department of homeland security, that is the us government agency that is responsible for monitoring our security in cyberspace and coordinating with the public and private sector to protect us interests in cyberspace, is monitoring the situation.' officials say they currently don't have any information to share about who a-t and t is looking to buy time warner. time warner's stock rose nearly 10 percent yesterday after reports that a-t and t may make a huge bid for the entertainment company. shares of a-t and t were down by four percent after the news broke. according to the report, the deal could happen as early as this weekend. but such a deal would send waves through the media sector -- giving a-t and t programming control of household names like c-n-n, h-b-o and cartoon network. time warner is the parent company of commented on this report. wells fargo's fake account scandal may cause the bank to close many of its locations. wells fargo hasn't announced any wide-scale

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>> reporter: the attack was named at dyn, a tech company based in new hampshire that switchboard and allows people to go on to websites. it trip willed dns, essentially overloading it. it will cost major corporations dearly. it's early too early to tell who is responsible. some say based on the magnitude of the attack, it may be russian in orgies. but one senior intelligence official tells nbc news this is vandalism and likely not state sponsored. >> there are a host of adversaries that can launch these types of attacks and we have to make sure that we have a resilient network that is able to with stand these types of probes. >> with the largest outage in the northeast, a second wave spread west. tens of millions could not check their banking accounts or log on to local news. in los angeles, epic interactative sent employees home. with pay pal and twitter down, nobody could rk concerned because it's one thing when there is an attack. another thing when an entire day goes by. and another thing when the companies involved can't respond to it. the case of cyber warfare comes just before

amy: again, dyn has not pspoken white house is calling it malicious. crews recovered the body of a second construction worker, i should say, killed after getting trapped in a flooded trench. investigators say it appears a pipe burst and the workers were unable to escape in time. the trench was 12 to 15 feet deep. witnesses say the scene was heartbreaking. >> one guy put a rope around it and went down. they had a ladder down there, like they were all scurrying. amy: the incident is under investigation. the area is expected to be try to figure out what happened. a rochester woman is accused of providing fentanyl that killed a man. they arrested nina batisbatista they found a man dead on osborn street. toxicology showed that the man died from acute fentanyl with death resulting. today is drug take-back day, a safe way to get rid of unneeded and unwanted drugs. last year it was 8,000 pounds of drugs. people can drop off prescriptions at more than 100 locations across the state. >> when you look at the crisis we're faced with here in new hampshire, we know