Denial-of-Service Attacks

[Will E Worm]

Denial-of-Service Attack Knocks Twitter and other sites Offline. (Updated)

Twitter was shut down for hours Thursday morning by what it described as an “ongoing” denial-of-service attack, silencing millions of Tweeters. It was the first major outage the service has suffered in months and possibly the first ever due to sabotage. The outage appeared to begin mid-morning, EST, and affected users around the world. After about three hours, the service was coming back online in fits and starts (updated).

Article

What is a denial of service attack?

Yesterday's technical assault on Twitter and other social-networking websites, such as Facebook and Livejournal, is known as a distributed denial of service attack. This technique uses a network of tens of thousands of compromised computers, known as a "botnet", to flood a website's servers with page view requests, leaving legitimate traffic unable to get through. This huge amount of connection requests can quickly overwhelm a server and, in some cases, cause an entire website to crash.

Article

 

[Lethal]

wonderful

 

[busenbust]

The End of Twitter!!!!!???? :banana:

 

[SiCo]

My account wrote it's own post directing people to a spam site.

 

[sdj374]

Poor Ashon Kutcher didn't get to tell us what he had for lunch yesterday. :thefinger:thefinger

 

[busenbust]

^^^D Moore?? LOL

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Damn! I sooooo wanted to know when Robert Pattinson had a bowel movement!

 

[SiCo]

Damn! I sooooo wanted to know when Robert Pattinson had a bowel movement!

He hasn't yet, he's putting off until Twitter gets sorted out, according to one spokesman at the hospital.

 

[Will E Worm]

Poor Ashon Kutcher didn't get to tell us what he had for lunch yesterday. :thefinger:thefinger

^^^D Moore?? LOL

I don't care what he does. He should have faded away after, "That 70's Show."

An old female looking to regain her youth. (Demi Moore)

Kutcher is looking for his mother.

I don't care for Facebook or Twitter. I don't like their names.

I prefer LiveJournal.

 

[busenbust]

^^Me neither.

 

[mainone]

The DDoS attacks were directed to silence a Georgian blogger. The story is on Wired.com

 

[smutking]

Haha, I was addicted to twitter for a bit but come to my senses...I get on maybe once a week now. Don't need the whole world knowing my every move

 

[D-rock]

Maybe if we all get together and help we can shut down Twitter before it become the bane of journalism and all of civilization. :1orglaugh

 

[shayd]

Eh, could just as easily happen to any site on the Internet.