August 7, 2009 at 10:48Twitter hurt due to conflict between Russia and Georgia?
As you know, yesterday several large social networks were hit by DDoS.
The attackers included YouTube, Livejournal , Facebook and Twitter .
According to Bill Woodcock, representing Packet Clearing House (a non-profit organization that monitors Internet traffic), this attack is one of the manifestations of the crisis in relations between Russia and Georgia, which also extends to cyberspace.
It is unclear which of the parties initiated the attack, but according to Woodcock, some of the parties splashed out another dose of propaganda, and the second decided to block it in this way. Also, according to him, he has some evidence that the attack spread from the Abkhaz region.
In an interview with NYT , he said that the attack was not organized as a regular DDoS attack using a botnet, but proceeded according to a scenario like this: At around 6 pm Moscow time on August 5, millions of users around the world received e-mail spam, containing links to Twitter and other services. Thus, when everyone rushed to click on these links, the server could not cope with this wave of requests.
And although YouTube and Livejournal were among the attacked sites, Twitter suffered the most. Representatives of YouTube generally said that they did not notice anything unusual.
The attackers included YouTube, Livejournal , Facebook and Twitter .
According to Bill Woodcock, representing Packet Clearing House (a non-profit organization that monitors Internet traffic), this attack is one of the manifestations of the crisis in relations between Russia and Georgia, which also extends to cyberspace.
It is unclear which of the parties initiated the attack, but according to Woodcock, some of the parties splashed out another dose of propaganda, and the second decided to block it in this way. Also, according to him, he has some evidence that the attack spread from the Abkhaz region.
In an interview with NYT , he said that the attack was not organized as a regular DDoS attack using a botnet, but proceeded according to a scenario like this: At around 6 pm Moscow time on August 5, millions of users around the world received e-mail spam, containing links to Twitter and other services. Thus, when everyone rushed to click on these links, the server could not cope with this wave of requests.
And although YouTube and Livejournal were among the attacked sites, Twitter suffered the most. Representatives of YouTube generally said that they did not notice anything unusual.