A massive cyberattack blocked your favorite websites; FBI and Homeland Security are investigating

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The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are investigating a massive cyberattack that stopped or slowed access to Twitter, Spotify, Amazon and other sites.…Hacking an email server or stealing user account information from a network is more targeted than a DDoS attack, which aims to cause widespread disruption, said Justin Cappos, a professor in the computer science and engineering department at NYU.