Social Networking Sites Victims of DDOS Attacks
Wired on August 06, 2009
Twitter and Facebook were both apparent victims of distributed denial-of-service attacks on Thursday. Both sites are back up and running, but Twitter was offline for a while and Facebook only experienced minor network issues.
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