DDoS

6. August 2009 | 17:39

Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)

Twitter’s extended downtime today, now lasting almost 2 hours, has a malicious cause. Twitter has revealed that it’s defending against a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS), in which the target is typically saturated with so many fake requests that the victim is unable to return legitimate ones. Knowing that the cause is a malicious attack does take Twitter off the hook to some degree - … (News Source: Mashable - 15:14:34)

Oooh Dramatic! Twitter Get’s DDOSed

Update to the big ongoing Twitter outage that has brought the service down since at least 6:00 am California time today: It’s a DDOS attack. That’s way more exciting than run of the mill outages that have plagued the site since forever. Stay tuned. Update: As of 8:16 Twitter is partially live again. (News Source: TechCrunch - 15:21:01)

Twitter outage clamps tweets

Twitter went down Thursday, and officials have confirmed an attack. (News Source: WABC-TV New York - 15:36:39)

Dastardly DDoSers down Gawker

Consumerist.com drags everything else down with it New York-based media news and gossip blog network Gawker is recovering from a debilitating denial of service attack…. Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing (News Source: The Register - 14:21:31)

Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal Down at the Same Time! (Update)

For those of you addicted to social networking, Thursday morning is starting out pretty rough. The two biggest sites for updating your status - Twitter and Facebook - are both experiencing issues this morning. Twitter’s outage started around 9 AM EST today and while Facebook is up (somewhat), posting updates and wall comments is currently very flaky. And you can’t even go vent about how this … (News Source: ReadWriteWeb - 14:42:45)

‘Mafiaboy’: Cloud Computing Will Cause Internet Security Meltdown

Notorious black-hat hacker warns that cloud-based computing will be “extremely dangerous,” and explains how he got into hacking at age 15 (News Source: Dark Reading - 02:34:18)

We Were Attacked By Dastardly Hackers! [Explanations]

Well here’s your last (Hopefully!) technical difficulties update: According to a memo sent out tonight by our IT team, the recent Gawker Media server problems were the result of a DDOS attack against… (News Source: Gawker - 06:35:05)

Denial-of-service attack downed Gawker Media

The attack was launched at Consumerist, a blog that Gawker no longer owns but which is still hosted on the same servers. (News Source: CNET - 14:34:30)

Why Gizmodo Went Down [Announcements]

As you most probably noticed this weekend and yesterday, Gizmodo-and all the Gawker sites-went down in flames for a couple of days. We are now back at full power, and have a pretty… (News Source: Gizmodo - 14:10:25)

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