Posts Tagged ‘denial-of-service’
Twitter is down
Thursday, August 6, 2009 16:33 1 CommentAs most of you on Twitter have already acutely become aware today… Twitter is down!
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is usually a malicious attempt to create havoc for a website — which ruins it for the intended users (us on twitter). Here is a graphic layout of what happens.
The United States Computer Emergency Response Team defines symptoms [...]



