Twitter crippled by denial-of-service attack

puertoblack2003 · #1 08-06-2009, 03:56 PM

Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday morning, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic time-outs (and more outright downtime). The company is blaming an "ongoing" denial-of-service attack but has not said anything further. Facebook has also confirmed that it was targeted by a DoS attack that rendered some of its features slow or non-functional.

Judging by the timeline of my TweetDeck client, it looks like the problems started right around 6 a.m. PDT.

"We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly," Twitter's staff posted at 6:43 a.m. PDT on the service's status blog.

Then, around 7:49 a.m. PT, the company posted, "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack and will update status again shortly."

Around 8:15 a.m., the status blog post was updated with "The site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack." (I still was unable to access Twitter.)

Perfomance monitoring firm AlertSite says that Twitter's home page went down at 6:05 a.m. PT and was showing 40 percent availability at 8:04 a.m. PT, but that timeouts were continuing from most of its monitoring locations at 8:30 a.m.

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PsyChoTk · #2 08-06-2009, 04:02 PM

hummm.....i wonder where the attacks ares coming from? wouldn't suprise me they are an attempt to keep info quiet in iran. just like when things frist went south and people were posting to twitter and FB and a bunch of users changed thier time zones in twitter and FB to help out those inside iran.

puertoblack2003 · #3 08-06-2009, 04:06 PM

ddos attack can pretty much be anywhere it can be as far as russia or japan or maybe in the states...it kinda hard to track unless you have some skillz...

PsyChoTk · #4 08-06-2009, 04:18 PM

“ Originally Posted by puertoblack2003 ”

ddos attack can pretty much be anywhere it can be as far as russia or japan or maybe in the states...it kinda hard to track unless you have some skillz...

i have no skills, Mr. Government who is monitoring this fourm. , just ideas.

puertoblack2003 · #5 08-06-2009, 04:22 PM

“ Originally Posted by PsyChoTk ”

i have no skills, Mr. Government who is monitoring this fourm. , just ideas.

hahahahah i hear ya

CYBER WEESJE · #6 08-06-2009, 04:39 PM

he yeah i heart about this and yes it can com from anyware even from your own pc whitout you or any one nows your pc and many ohters make big zombie net and when the have reach there number will burst the dos attack from there zombie pc the change the can track these are very slim the last months the have bin warned and show that twitter whas not good protected since there where accounts that had bin hack alot now the now the have to step up there safety and protect there ass better lol

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ON3/\L · #7 08-06-2009, 06:12 PM

it's stupid to me that people do shit like that! I mean, com one.... get a life. Some people just thrive on destruction and disaster and it makes me sick ****ing 1 ruins it for the rest..

iamdasht19 · #8 08-06-2009, 08:16 PM

“ Originally Posted by ON3/\L ”

it's stupid to me that people do shit like that! I mean, com one.... get a life. Some people just thrive on destruction and disaster and it makes me sick ****ing 1 ruins it for the rest..

i agree with the statement.... and for what seriously? i wonder if it was facebook or myspace sending the attacks hahahahaa

BiG JeW · #9 08-06-2009, 11:20 PM

twitter?? That sounds like something i do when a gotta let one loose... like, that girl just got twittered on.

PsyChoTk · #10 08-07-2009, 04:58 AM

“ Originally Posted by BiG JeW ”