Twitter has been brought down this morning as the result of a DDoS attack. The site has been down for the better part of the last three hours here on the east coast, but is starting to show some signs of life now.
Meanwhile, Twitter revealed that it’s defending itself from a Distributed Denial of [...]

Continue reading " Twitter Brought Down by to DDOS Attack "

A botnet of about 50,000 infected computers has been attacking U.S. government websites and causing trouble for businesses in both the United States and South Korea.
The attack started this past Saturday it knocking out the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s website on Monday and Tuesday.  Other government agencies have also been targeted, including the [...]

Continue reading " Cyber Attack Targets Government Websites "

While we admit that our earlier story about VeriSign was an April Fools joke, this one is not.
So the Conficker worm has been pretty harmless so far, you say?  Don’t speak too soon.
Twitter users are frantic about the fact that Register.com’s DNS servers are down due to a massive DDOS attack.
If you’re wondering why half [...]

Continue reading " Register.com Down Due to Massive DDOS Attack "