Thursday, August 06, 2009

Twitter Back after denial-of-service attack

Twitter Back after denial-of-service attack
After 1 hour, Twitter Team Recover the website


Twitter Message :

Update
: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack.

We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.

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Reason why Twitter goes down :
"Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users."

Way of Denial Attack
Denial-of-service attacks take various forms but often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.

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