Last week’s DoS attack on social networking sites – targeting one, victimizing many

Last Thursday, a Georgian blogger called "Cyxymu" - with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Google's Blogger and YouTube - was targeted in a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.  This technique uses a network of tens of thousands of compromised computers (aka “botnets") to flood a website's servers with page view requests, making it impossible for legitimate traffic to get through. If the amount of connection requests is large enough, it can crash an entire website, as happened to... [More]