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Twitter suffers sustained outage in hacker attack

14 points by hornokplease 14y ago

hornokplease 14y ago
HED doesn't tell the whole story - in the article an unidentified security expert is quoted: One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the group was solely responsible for bringing down the social media network.
modarts 14y ago
I highly doubt that a site that operates at the scale of Twitter would be susceptible to a DDoS; or wouldn't at least of provisions in place to lessen the effect of such an attack.
- hornokplease 14y ago
  I agree with you, I think the headline in this case is ill-advised, especially since the body of the report quotes a security professional who casts doubt on a DDoS as the culprit behind today's downtime. I fear it might have been chosen because it's a more provocative headline...
- Strom 14y ago
  Twitter is pretty quick to block access by IP. I occasionally run into it even during normal usage, when I open a bunch of profile pages.
digitalboss 14y ago
No - Twitter outage blamed on 'cascading bug'.
raptrajs 14y ago
...its most dedicated users...had nowhere to complain about the interruption. Amusing, but poignant: We go to Twitter when something is down or an earthquake happens, but where do we go when Twitter itself is down?
- dennmart 14y ago
  Some of my Facebook friends actually went to Facebook to mention that Twitter was down. I wonder what would happen if both Twitter and Facebook were down simultaneously...
  - shousper 14y ago
    That sounds like a plot for an attack! =P Probably mass SMS.. iMessage/BBM, something like that?
    - chii 14y ago
      Everyone reverts back to using email...
ceol 14y ago
One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the group was solely responsible for bringing down the social media network. "It was mere coincidence," the security professional said. "The backend of Twitter is having issues, which is unrelated to the very small attack." More like "Twitter suffers sustained outage coincidentally during hacker attack"
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14 points by hornokplease 14y ago

HED doesn't tell the whole story - in the article an unidentified security expert is quoted: One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the group was solely responsible for bringing down the social media network.

modarts 14y ago

I highly doubt that a site that operates at the scale of Twitter would be susceptible to a DDoS; or wouldn't at least of provisions in place to lessen the effect of such an attack.

hornokplease 14y ago
I agree with you, I think the headline in this case is ill-advised, especially since the body of the report quotes a security professional who casts doubt on a DDoS as the culprit behind today's downtime. I fear it might have been chosen because it's a more provocative headline...
Strom 14y ago
Twitter is pretty quick to block access by IP. I occasionally run into it even during normal usage, when I open a bunch of profile pages.

digitalboss 14y ago

No - Twitter outage blamed on 'cascading bug'.

raptrajs 14y ago

...its most dedicated users...had nowhere to complain about the interruption. Amusing, but poignant: We go to Twitter when something is down or an earthquake happens, but where do we go when Twitter itself is down?

dennmart 14y ago
Some of my Facebook friends actually went to Facebook to mention that Twitter was down. I wonder what would happen if both Twitter and Facebook were down simultaneously...
- shousper 14y ago
  That sounds like a plot for an attack! =P Probably mass SMS.. iMessage/BBM, something like that?
  - chii 14y ago
    Everyone reverts back to using email...

ceol 14y ago

One security professional said the group probably used a DDoS-for-hire site to launch an attack against Twitter on Tuesday, but downplayed the likelihood the group was solely responsible for bringing down the social media network. "It was mere coincidence," the security professional said. "The backend of Twitter is having issues, which is unrelated to the very small attack." More like "Twitter suffers sustained outage coincidentally during hacker attack"

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