Thursday, August 6, 2009
The Attacks
On Thursday morning Facebook Twitter and Livejournal were attacked by a hacker disrupting the usage of the sites to 306 million users. The hacker had the website send out request that made it so the websites couldnt be access. Experts say that twitter was shut down in most of the world for about three hours and couldnt send out tweets for most of that time. Facebook and Livejournal were shut down for around an hour before technitions fixed the problem but the Live Journal still couldnt be reached hrough iPhones or in Eastern Europe. Experts say that they havnt seen anything like this sence the attacks on Yahoo, eBay, Amazon.com, Etrade, ZDNET and CNN in Febuary of 2000. They also beleive that these hackers are doing this to show how strong these computer bots can be in the hands of crimals.
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This is exactly why i don't have twitter. When are people going to realize that there is nothing that a hacker can't hack. If the FBI can be hacked then Twitter isn't above that. What is really frustrating is that people were acting like it was the end of the world just because they couldn't tweet for a few hours.
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