Re: Social Networking Sites Attacked By DDoS Attacker

Troop — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:46:50 GMT

Well, Twitter goes down all the time because people tweet too much, so it's not surprising that any attack would wipe them off the internets.

Re: Social Networking Sites Attacked By DDoS Attacker

ParaDOX — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:23:00 GMT

Google has their server distributed around the globe to handle the load. So they don't notice this as much. Most Social networking sites have their data in a centralized location, making them susceptible to these types of attacks. They could spread their data around but it would have delay's as the data was sychronized between sites.

Re: Social Networking Sites Attacked By DDoS Attacker

Troop — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:58:32 GMT

Yeah, I remember that. I didn't know the cause of the attacks though. I didn't know they attacked Youtube and Google but I do find it hilarious that it doesn't even look like it made Google flinch. I had no idea they were even attacked. Don't mess with Google, :P.

Social Networking Sites Attacked By DDoS Attacker

DarkAstraea — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:21:23 GMT

"The elusive Precision dropped a submission in my lap about a DDoS taking down Twitter running on CNet. It's been down for several hours, no doubt wreaking havoc on the latest hawtness in social networking. Won't someone please think of the tweeters? Word is that both Facebook & LiveJournal have been having problems this AM as well."

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"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 yesterday's site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on, 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."

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