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VIRTUALISATION Twitter under denial-of-service attack
VIRTUALISATION Twitter under denial-of-service attack | Twitter under denial-of-service attack |
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| by Jake Widman | |
| Friday, 07 August 2009 | |
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About an hour and a half the Twitter status page confirmed that "we are defending against a denial-of-service attack." Shortly after that, the network was back up but still experiencing problems as the attack continued. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone managed to get a tweet out about 2 hours after the attack started, saying, "We had a lot of things we'd rather be doing this morning, defending against a DoS wasn't one of them." A little over three hours after the network went down, the status page warned, "As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients." The effects of the outage spread beyond Twitter itself. For more on Twitter's outage, see Page 2. |
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