A massive cyberattack caused major websites to go down across the internet

AP Photo/Connie Zhou Internet users around the world, but mostly in the US, reported that some top websites were not loading on Friday morning. The affected sites included Amazon, Twitter, Etsy, Github, and Spotify. The issue appeared to have something to do with DNS hosts. Domain Name Servers are a core part of the internet's backbone. They translate what you type into your browser —.businessinsider.com, for example — into IP addresses that computers can understand. And as it happens, Dyn, ...