Twitter Attacked Again

It’s been only days since the microblogging service was shot down by unknown hackers when Twitter was once again attacked on Tuesday. Twitter said on its blog status that it was “analyzing the traffic data” so it could determine what kind of attack it’s getting. It lasted for about half an hour. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone stated in one of his emails on Monday that Twitter was continuing to come under attack.
But Biz however said that compared to the last attack, they were able to handle it to the point that Twitter is still in running condition. The systems are still looking good. They were able to identify the the target of the attack. It was a pro-Georgian blogger, the said attack was believed to silence his online criticism against Moscow in the last year’s Georgia-Russia war.

The said attack was a series of old school zombie computers, viruses simultaneously infecting computers to initiate series of visits to a website. This can totally slow down services or can possibly turn the site offline.

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