Twitter is back up and returning to normal following a service disruption that knocked the site offline for nearly 2 hours earlier this morning. Twitter’s official blog had this to say about the incident: We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales. Our on-call team is working on a fix. more »

Twitter users hoping to get their fix over breakfast discovered the site was down-and as of 7:15am Eastern. Anyone trying to access the site gets what many users dub “the Fail Whale” a page announcing “Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.” All third party apps using the more »

Two days ago Twitter was knocked off line by a large scale DDoS attack and although back online, the site is still under attack and fighting to keep from being knocked offline again. Some of the steps they’ve taken have affected third party apps that use Twitter’s API. As a result users using those apps more »

The botnet responsible for the ongoing DDoS attacks on many U.S. Government websites is getting even uglier. According to security researchers it has been programmed to turn on the computers it’s infected and encrypt and in some cases completely erase all their data. What’s particularly disturbing is that most Korean citizens have ignored the government’s more »

A Dallas security guard charged with hacking the computer system of the hospital he worked for was busted by a fellow hacker, but didn’t help his case when he posted videos of his exploits on YouTube. Jesse McGraw, known by the hacker name GhostExodus, posted videos to YouTube in which he claimed to be breaking more »