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Twitter in ‘Combat Mode’ As Attacks Continue
Data Center Knowledge (Sep 9 2009) Microblogging
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Twitter has been the target of additional denial of service attacks in the wake of a major outage on Aug. 6, but enhanced defenses implemented by Twitter and NTT America have reduced their impact.
“We’ve been continually seeing attacks, but I think the public has not noticed because we’ve been mitigating them,” said Kazuhiro Gomi, Chief Operating Officer of NTT America, which hosts Twitter’s infrastructure. “We are definitely in combat mode, but handling it.”
Twitter was badly hobbled by the Aug. 6 attack, which also targeted Facebook and several other social media sites. In a recent interview, NTT America addressed the steps taken to harden Twitter’s defenses against these attacks, and addressed some criticisms of Twitter’s performance.
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