Twitter Denial of Service
Denial of Service. Is that the words you hear from the salesgirl when trying to buy more clothes on your credit card? No, but if you ask Twitter or Facebook what it means, they will know. They were both victims of DoS (denial-of-service) attacks this past week.
According to Wikipedia A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted efforts of a person or people to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such facebook, and twitter
One common method of attack involves saturating the target service with external communications requests, such that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable.
In general, the goal of a DoS attack is to overwhelm a computer resource by hitting it with excessive amounts of service requests, thereby denying the services to legitimate users. DoS attacks require the concerted efforts of several people plus a bunch of technology. Or, it could be a virus somebody wrote specifically for Twiiter. This actually happened twice in the past week, so I guess Marc Zuckerberg should watch out who he lays off at his company. Too many smart tech people out there who can be motivated by revenge
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