August 6, 2009 9:51 PM PDT
Podcast: Twitter attacker had Georgia in mind
Elinor Mills
(Credit: CNET)CNET security and privacy reporter Elinor Mills, who has been reporting on the Twitter, Facebook, and Google denial of service attacks since early Thursday morning, interviewed a Facebook executive who told her that the attacks appeared not to be aimed at Twitter or Facebook but toward an individual person who blogs about independence of a breakaway region of Georgia. But even though it was aimed at one person, the sheer size of the attack was enough to bring down Twitter and impact Facebook.
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Actually, this guy is not russian, he is georgian - based in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Writes about politics and russian-georgian conflict. Writes mostly in Russian language in order to reach also russian society with his information.
- by MacSnob August 7, 2009 6:37 AM PDT
- Maybe this was related to the story about all those celeron pc's in the hands of cuban terrorists. Do you think there is a connection?
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