Facebook Problems Also the Result of DDoS Attack

Courtesy Mashable!  Thu, 08/06/2009 - 12:01

facebookThe social media world is under attack.

Earlier this morning, Twitter acknowledged that its downtime was the result of a malicious Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS), and now Facebook tells us that their intermittent site problems are also the result of DDoS activity.

According to a Facebook spokesperson “Earlier this morning, Facebook encountered network issues related to an apparent distributed denial of service attack, that resulted in degraded service for some users.

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