Denial of Service Attacks Being Investigated by Google, Twitter,...

Courtesy Mashable!  Thu, 08/06/2009 - 13:01

google-logoWe now know that Facebook, Twitter, and LiveJournal were all victims of Distributed Denial of Service attacks that crippled each of their services for several hours today, with intermitted problems still being reported on all of them.

Now, a source close to the situation tells us that Twitter, Facebook, and Google – all rivals in the realm of social networking – are working together to determine the root of what has been exposed as a deliberate...


 

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