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Hackers hit Twitter and Facebook
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| Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often involve a
| company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8188201.stm
Dastardly DDoSers down Gawker
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| New York-based media news and gossip blog network Gawker is recovering from a
| debilitating denial of service attack.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/06/gawker_ddos/
Researcher: Twitter attack targeted anti-Russian blogger
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| As Twitter struggled to return to normal Wednesday evening, a trickle of
| details suggested that the outage that left 30 million users unable to use
| the micro-blogging service for several hours - at least in part - may have
| been the result of a spam campaign that targeted a single user who vocally
| supports the Republic of Georgia.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/07/twitter_attack_theory/
How Twitter was killed
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| DDoS attacks are hard to beat. While some Twitter fans are claiming that this
| is the biggest DDoS attack ever, I'm inclined to doubt it. Twitter, even
| though its performance has gotten much better, has often teetered on the edge
| of collapse due to the enormous load its users put on its social network
| infrastructure. No, the DDoS attack on Google earlier this year was probably
| still the worst attack on record.
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| How is this happening? Well, let me tell you. Today's DDoS attacks are made
| by Windows-powered botnets. They're not terribly sophisticated about these
| attacks. The last major one, which may or may not have come from North Korea,
| was driven by MyDoom, Windows malware from 2004.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/14504/how_twitter_was_killed
Related:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data. Â
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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