Even if you do your best to ignore the two websites, there was simply no missing the denial-of-service attacks on Twitter and Facebook this past week. What you may not know is why the attacks were brought about. The easy answer is it’s the work of a hacker with access to a botnet that wanted to make annoy a massive amount of people for no particular reason. The purpose was actually a bit more focused than just targeting everyone.
It turns out that the attacks were brought upon Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and even some Google services all because of one blogger. That one blogger goes by the name Cyxymu, and dedicates his blog to “telling the truth about the Russian-Georgian war.” According to Cyxymu’s LiveJournal, “it’s obvious it’s a special attack against me and Georgians.” The attacks actually all targeted his pages in particular, which makes it even more amazing that Facebook actually managed to keep his page active and viewable by those in the area of The Republic of Georgia.
The attacks were the first time such a number of sites were attacked at the same time. Google has said that it’s working with the other sites to investigate the attacks. While Google had no real issues with the attacks, perhaps it’s a good learning opportunity for the other sites. Nobody wants to see these sites attacked with a DDoS, especially for political reasons, and maybe this one will mean the next one won’t do as much damage. Google certainly knew how to deal with the issue, which isn’t surprising, but perhaps they could share their secrets with the other sites so we don’t lose access to the increasingly important social websites.
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It doesn't make sense for them to attack several social network sites because of one user. This has only caused the Streisand Effect. I would have never known about this blogger if it were not from their attacks. Now his word has been spread more than he could have ever done alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect