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blog.twitter.com - 8/6/2009

Denial of Service Attack

— blog.twitter.com — On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack .... Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in ... (more) Denial of Service Attack

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mac.blogdig.net - 8/6/2009

Twitter Hits by Denial of Service Attack

— mac.blogdig.net — If you are wondering why twitter is inaccessible from Thursday morning answer is Twitter hit by DOS... (denial of service) attack. Official twitter blog confirms the attack. Official words from twitter blog ? On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service ... (more) Twitter Hits by Denial of Service Attack

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Twitter taken down by denial-of-service attack
Macworld — ... and is continuing to deal with the problem. “We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate,” the company said. In a status report about an hour following its acknowledgement of the attack, Twitter reported that the site was back up, but users still were having trouble reaching it. (More to follow…)

Twitter silenced due denial of service attack
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... be slow to respond to some users. In my case, at around 1:45p EST, it took three or four minutes for Twitter to be accessible. The company's status blog says they are still working on addressing the issue. [via InformationWeek] TUAWTwitter silenced due denial of service attack originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...