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Twitter And Facebook Attacked

August 8 2009 by in Uncategorized |Comments Off

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 [...]

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