Online Attack Silences Twitter for Much of Day

August 7, 2009
Jenna Wortham of the New York Times reports on the Twitter outage suggesting "Many of Twitter’s 45 million legitimate visitors were unable to use the service for hours. Analysts characterized the disruption as a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers overwhelm a Web site by sending it a deluge of junk requests, and one suggested the attack might have originated in Russia or Georgia."

Sure is a fragile Space out there in Cyber.

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