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With the slow but sure recovery from the DDoS attack, Twitter got plenty to thank Google for, especially when Twitter is the most affected among others. According to Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone, the Twitter team has learned a lot from this incident and will be better prepared next time (if this ever happen again). With Facebook's acquisition of FriendFeed not long ago, I can't help but wonder if Google and Twitter could ever join forces to ward off challenges posted by Facebook. My dad once taught me that nothing is free under ...
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Aug 28 2009
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DDoS Attacks to Silence Cyxymu?
The earlier speculation of the cause of the social media chaos has been confirmed. The attacks were all to silence one Georgian blogger with the username, Cyxymu (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) across all the sites that were attacked. Social Media has been pulled into the Georgia-Russia crisis to prevent the blogger from being heard. Facebook’s chief security officer Max Kelly told CNET News: “It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard. We’re actively investigating the ...
Aug 7 2009
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Social Media Meltdown
The Social Media realm has in fact been hit by the DDoS attack. The more popular social network sites have been experiencing longer load times and inaccessibility to some of their services. Twitter users were the first to be denied access to the site. This resulted in more traffic being directed to Facebook, which was already having troubles of its own. This has caused them to point their fingers to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack - the work of hackers. Infected sites include Livejournal as well. Related applications such as ...
Aug 7 2009
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What is DDoS?
With Twitter, Facebook and Livejournal down, the evil Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack has caught the attention of Internet users, leaving them bewildered and curious. So what is DDoS? It is an effort to make a site inaccessible to its intended users and preventing it from working normally. This is usually done by attacking the site with a multitude of compromised systems (bots). Because the victim site can't handle the huge influx of traffic/messages, it would be slowed, dysfunctional and forced offline. Catch the video to understand more: Read more on Social Media ...
Aug 28 2009
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Twitter Under DDoS Attack.
To all of our delight, Twitter is partially up again after about one and a half hour of outrage. According to Twitter status update, it could be a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. DoS attack is an attempt to prevent a website from working properly, denying users from its resource. There are several methods of attack and it could be done by anyone. We would be waiting for Twitter to determine the exact cause. Here's what Twitter said, "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly. Update: the site is ...
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