Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://brownpenguin.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://brownpenguin.com/files.php?file= http://brownpenguin.com/ http://brownpenguin.com/social-media/twitter-attacked-by-hackers.html Social Media Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:25:00 +0000 Many Twitter fans this week have been upset about their favorite microblogging site being offline several times, which is unusual for the third-largest social networking Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:43:26 +0000 twitter new found fame makes a easy way for hackers Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:44:01 +0000 Twitter and Facebook both suffered service problems as a result of hacker attacks , raising speculation of a co-ordinated campaign against the world's most popular online social networks Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:44:27 +0000 Twitter, the popular microblogging service, was knocked down by a malicious attack that prevented people from accessing its website for several hours. Facebook members saw delays logging in and posting to their online profiles, which the social networking site said was related to an "apparent distributed denial-of-service attack." Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:44:49 +0000 Facebook was working with Twitter and Internet search company Google Inc. to investigate further, said a person familiar with Facebook but who was not authorized to speak to the media. Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:45:17 +0000 Speculation swirled that other social networking sites had also come under attack, after relatively lesser-known site LiveJournal said it, too, had been targeted by hackers yesterday. But those rumors could not be confirmed. Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:46:08 +0000 Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Twitter's blog that the site was the victim of a denial-of-service attack, a technique in which hackers overwhelm a website's servers with communications requests. Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:47:18 +0000 "We should defend against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:48:13 +0000 Motives for denial-of-service attacks range from political to rabble-rousing to extortion, with criminal groups increasingly threatening to hobble popular websites that do not pay demanded fees Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:49:03 +0000 Twitter, which lets users publish 140-character messages to groups of online "followers," is one of the fastest-growing Internet companies. Social Media Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:49:29 +0000 increasing name increasing risk BrownPenguin.com