Is Cyber Warfare to Blame for Twitter Meltdown?
Is Cyber Warfare to Blame for Twitter Meltdown?
August 6th, 2009 | by Ben Parr
Everybody’s still regrouping after today’s Denial of Service attacks against Twitter, Facebook (
), LiveJournal, and other social media websites. Now, however, some further details about what happened and who might be behind it are coming to light.
According to Bill Woodcock of Packet Clearing House (a nonprofit organization tracking Internet traffic), the attack wasn’t a traditional DDoS attack using automated bots, but one conducted through a wave of spam email messages that hit Twitter (
), LiveJournal, and other websites. On top of that, it looks like YouTube (
via mashable.com
These are interesting times eh?
