July 2009
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Twitter ‘Denial-Of-Service’ Attack
Oh no! Twitter is Down! My first thought was that our networking guys had blocked my computer, not that they would do this on purpose. Although they routinely tell clients to block social sites to save time, money and headaches associated with a social networking workforce. They know the work we do so I decided to look for another answer. It was already news. Twitter was hit with a ‘Denial-of-service’ Attack. “Denial-of-service attacks are a common weapon employed by cyber criminals to disrup…