Inside Twitter’s Network Architecture

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1. Barrett Lyon is a veteran when it comes to defending against denial of service attacks, having founded Prolexic, a leading player in defending against electronic attacks. Lyon, who is now CTO and co-founder of content distributon provider BitGravity, has created a detailed network map of Twitter’s architecture as part of an analysis of yesterday attack on social networks. Lyon and Richard Steinnon from Threat Chaos also found that Twitter’s status page (status.twitter.com) is hosted on the same server as an adult site (language warning). (Read Full Article)
   
   

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