Twitter Outage Traced to Attack on Georgian Blogger
A blogger from the republic of Georgia who uses the account name Cyxymu, a town in Georgia, was the apparent target of the denial-of-service attack that virtually crippled Twitter Thursday and affected Facebook and LiveJournal, Facebook chief security officer Max Kelly told CNET News.
Cyxymu has accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger and YouTube, CNET reported.
A cached version of Cyxymu’s LiveJournal page contained a message about the DoS attacks and said in Russian, “Now it’s obvious it’s a special attack against me and Georgians,” according to CNET.
Packet Clearing House research director Bill Woodcock told The New York Times millions of spam messages were sent at about 10:30 a.m.
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