Twitter is Latest Victim in Series of Attacks

Data Center Knowledge (Aug 6 2009) Microblogging , Networking

1. Today’s denial of service (DOS) attack on Twitter is the latest in a series of electronic attacks this year on major Internet properties, which have targeted large web hosts and domain registrars, and more recently have expanded to prominent social media sites. The attacks knocked Twitter offline for most of the morning, with both Netcraft and Pingdom reporting about three hours of downtime. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone confirmed that the outage was caused by a denial of service attack (Read Full Article)

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