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Twitter Hit by Denial-of-Service Attack Friday, August 07, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Defense and Security   
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Internet attacks shut down the social networking site Twitter for about two hours on Thursday morning and caused glitches in other sites like Facebook and LiveJournal, a blogging site. It's unclear if the attacks were coordinated against the social media sites. Twitter says its site's blackout was caused by a "denial of service attack," which likely means a hacker used a herd of infected computers to send bad information to the site to overwhelmed it. (source: edition.cnn.com)
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