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

August 6th, 2009 admin

We 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.


Originally posted on Mashable

 
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