On Aug 6, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Christoph Blecker wrote:
It looks like there is something more widespread today. I've noticed a couple other sites having issues. LiveJournal has confirmed they are under attack as well: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/125027.html
This is interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/technology/internet/07twitter.html Most computer security analysts did not cite a specific source of the attack Thursday. But Bill Woodcock, a research director of the Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit technical organization that tracks Internet traffic, said Thursday’s attack was an extension of the conflict between Russia and Georgia. It was not clear who initiated the attack, he said, but likely “one side put up propaganda, the other side figured this out and is attacking them.” Instead of using a botnet, or a network of thousands of malware- infected personal computers to flood a site with traffic, Mr. Woodcock said this particular attack consisted of a wave of spam e-mail messages, which began infiltrating Twitter and other sites at 10:25 a.m. Eastern time. “It’s a vast increase in traffic that creates the denial-of-service,” he said. YouTube and LiveJournal were also affected, Mr. Woodcock said, although “Twitter was definitely hit the hardest.” YouTube said it had not noticed any problems with its service. ----------------- While I certainly trust PCH, I would be curious as to the evidence for this. Regards Marshall
Cheers, -Christoph
Jorge Amodio wrote:
FB flakyness could be related to timeout with Twitter APIs
Just reported by the birdhouse:
"As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can."