"A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET News.
"It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard,"
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10305200-245.html |
a Google PR has announced that Google was also target by the DDoS. |
"a Google PR has announced that Google was also target by the DDoS."
interesting.. i did notice that my gmail was acting strange yesterday – such as logging in and then my inbox not rendering.
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I can log in Twitter, but I can't send messages (infinite loading). And you? |
I have no problems. I've never had any problems since 2007. Maybe I'm just lucky not to be using Twitter when bad stuff happens :D |
a nice chart about Twitter's outage
http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/08/where-did-all-the-tweets-go/ |
