Twitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)

Courtesy Mashable!  Thu, 08/06/2009 - 09:11

Twitter’s extended downtime today, now lasting almost 2 hours, has a malicious cause.

Twitter has revealed that it’s defending against a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS), in which the target is typically saturated with so many fake requests that the victim is unable to return legitimate ones.

Knowing that the cause is a malicious attack does take Twitter off the hook to some degree – it may have been assumed that the site was...


 

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