A hacker was attacking Twitter and Facebook accounts to shut them down. This hit national news on Friday. So, social networking has become an important tool in our society as we continue to move to this type of networking. They are assuming it is someone from Russia who created the attacks to shut down both systems. I am still having problems with my Facebook account as of today. We need to have better security systems since these sites are becoming more and more popular.
Twitters defense measures have caused some disruptions today, the company said. Many users cant send their updates, known as Tweets, via the short messaging serviceand other applications, Twitter said. A denial-of-service attack shut down Twitter entirely yesterday, while the Facebook disruption only affected some users. Both sites resumed service later in the day, as did LiveJournal, based in San Francisco. Google, owner of the world's largest search engine, also was targeted in the attacks -- with little effect. "Google systems prevented substantive impact to our services," the Mountain View, California-based company said in a statement. cited Attacks on Twitter and Facebook
"Nevertheless, todays massive, globally distributed attack was a reminder that there's still lots of work ahead." stated by San Francisco-based Twitter
Overall, we must be aware that the enemy will always be looking over our shoulders. We need to continue to prepare for more attacks on the social networking sites as more people sign up with them. People overseas use this data to steal one's identity. Then, we have a whole other problem at the micro level. Be careful of the information that you put on the Internet at all times. Safety 1st is my family motto.
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Hackers and spammers and new viruses. Its a dangerous world out there for us with keyboards and mother boards. My twitter wont tweet.
Thanks for the update. The experience shows how much access to these services means in our daily activities. When Twitter is down and Facebook loses its features, we certainly miss these opportunities.
Oh what will they think of next!
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Here's an interesting assessment of those attacks from a pretty savvy blogger this morning:
http://www.baekdal.com/notes/work/twitter-livejournal-attack/
He thinks the Russian blogger shot himself in the foot and did this to himself!
Thanks for the useful comments on this blog today
That was amazing to me. Twitter is done. Thanks for the update
I really liked the blog that you posted. Keep them coming.