Twitter keeps on tweeting
Twitter has been largely back up and running since Saturday. The microblogging service was completely down for hours on Thursday following a denial-of-service attack.
The SMS service Twitter has been largely accessible again since Saturday following an internet attack. The micro-blogging service was completely blocked for hours on Thursday afternoon following a so-called denial of service attack. The social network Facebook, the website Livejournal as well as Google's Blogger site and YouTube were also affected by the attack.
In a denial-of-service attack, or DoS attack for short, a server is brought to its knees simply by being overloaded with a targeted mass of requests. As a rule, hackers secretly hijack thousands of computers beforehand, which are then activated for the attack at a specific time.
In a denial-of-service attack, or DoS attack for short, a server is brought to its knees simply by being overloaded with a targeted mass of requests. As a rule, hackers secretly hijack thousands of computers beforehand, which are then activated for the attack at a specific time.
