Twitter Has Been Taken Offline by an Ongoing Denial Of Service Attack.
August 6, 2009 by admin
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Twitter has been knocked offline by a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The popular social networking site has been offline for more than an hour, with a message on its status page saying: “We are defending against a denial-of-service attack.”
On the Twitter blog, co-founder Biz Stone wrote: “On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack.”
“Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users,” he said.
Twitter has promised an update soon. The site has suffered outages before, but normally because of sudden upswings in traffic.
Source www.itpro.co.uk
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Twitter is really a good way in keeping yourself updated with the day to day activities of your friends and families members. I update my Twitter and personal blog daily.
Maybe you should also post how Twitter solved the problem. And what are the precautionary measure they adapt in case such attacks occur again.