Posted on 08/13/2009 4:53:03 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
Last week, Twitter was vexed by a DDoS attack that took it offline for a few hours. In that case, Russian hackers were suspected. This week's DDoS attack, however, may have different origins -- and they could be related to the attacks that took out a few U.S. and South Korean government sites last Fourth of July, according to AVG's chief of research.
The latest attack hit the site in waves.
"We're currently experiencing another wave of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against our system," Alex Payne, platform lead at Twitter, wrote on the service's Web dev blog on Tuesday at 12:23 p.m.
Last week's DDoS attacks were suspected to be the work of Russian hackers, who apparently undertook the attack to silence a single Georgian blogger. The blogger goes by the name "Cyxymu" and was posting articles about the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Georgia.
However, this latest DDoS attack is more likely related to the attacks last month on U.S. and South Korean government Web sites, AVG's Thompson said. Over the July 4 weekend, massive DDoS attacks hit at least 14 U.S. government Web sites, including that of the Department of Homeland Security More about Department of Homeland Security, as well as several South Korean government sites.
Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and it's getting more and more difficult to trace the botnet operators.
In light of the repeated attacks against its infrastructure, Twitter needs to take action to improve security. "They could distribute their infrastructure better and use an approach like Akamai to further reduce risk," Miller told TechNewsWorld.
Akamai provides a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery.
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>>> because we have ongoing DDOS attacks <<<<<
For clarification, who do you man by “we”?
Has anyone posted anything about the FR outages over the last few days?
Time for a counter attack, if possible.
‘Owned’ Windows machines will be the end of us...
OK, thanks.
I was having FR problems right up to yesterday afternoon and evening.
If this latest attack is similar in structure and origin to the attack on South Korea last July 4th weekend, apparently they had also attacked the South Korean banking system.
Here is another related article along with an excerpt.
Internet security is everyone's business
Excerpt follows
Another noteworthy one, says V3, was the revelation that the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) security could now be subverted using a process known as a "man in the middle" attack. The scary thing about it is that SSL is what persuades millions of Internet users to hand over their credit card details and engage in e-commerce on the browser interface.
Except to do something important, like rearranging my sock drawer.
Those ‘so and so wants to follow you on Twitter’ emails are a real hoot.
They sure are.
I had three 'followers' at first, then I checked them out and they were all Porn Sites lol! Now I have one, a FReeper (I think).
I just joined because JimRob did. Hoped to get up to date news on FR Crashes, and/or to send him a 'tweet' on the same. So for I'm just screwing around with it. I don't see what all the hub-bub is.
Its kinda lame.
Oh I am sure a lot of us will get dragged onto Twitter, but really who has the time. Gonna crash and forget all about hacking for awhile. Will check the thread later.
It ought to be illegal to use a windows machine to connect to the internet.
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