A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET News.
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Conspiracy theory or for real?? *squints*
curious
Twitter, Facebook, LJ downtime explanation..
August 8th, 2009
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littlestarling It's interesting how vulnerable all these huge sites are. This post is very eye opening!
ala_tariel Huh! A Georgian attacked a Russian. Hmmm....
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