Twitter And Facebook Attacked
Over the past several days, denial of service attacks have been launched at Twitter and Facebook. Twitter was shutdown for a couple hours. Facebook suffered from a slowdown.
Authorities believe the attacks attempted to silence a user from Russia. “It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard,” Facebook’s chief security officer said. “We’re actively investigating the source of the attacks, and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them, if we can.”
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