Facebook, LiveJournal Hit by DDoS Attack

[JMcEntegart]

Earlier today Twitter was completely taken offline by a denial of service attack and it seems Facebook and LiveJournal were also targeted.

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[Guest]

obviously myspace

 

[acecombat]

North Korea!!! After Clinton's visit they are probably feeling vulnerable now and are asserting their authority.

 

[spaz480]

is it a jackal?

 

[viometrix]

what do these people hope to gain by doing this? i remeber in my day of hacking we actually had a purpose.... not just some fu##ing script kiddie getting kicks

 

[daft]

i don't want to claim all the glory

 

[Ciuy]

it was George Clooney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[daft]

though i will if someone else is at blame. if i had that many friends anyway

 

[ravenware]

A rogue iPhone

 

[grieve]

""So, that's Facebook, LiveJournal and Twitter all targeted by what we can only assume was the same group of people. Who do you think is responsible?""

Assumption is the mother of all F ups!

My guess: Twitter is the guilty party... they knocked themselves down so they could target Facebook and LiveJournal without being suspected.

 

[nitto555rchallenger]

[citation][nom]grieve[/nom]""So, that's Facebook, LiveJournal and Twitter all targeted by what we can only assume was the same group of people. Who do you think is responsible?""Assumption is the mother of all F ups!My guess: Twitter is the guilty party... they knocked themselves down so they could target Facebook and LiveJournal without being suspected.[/citation]

Why would Twitter do that when they all work hand in hand with each other? You can post tweets on facebook now.

 

[nachowarrior]

So what? it's the (insert panic inducing virus name here) virus!

zomg run for your lives! your pc is going to explode!

 

[socrates047]

either someone being philosophical, or someone being a jackass

 

[IzzyCraft]

[citation][nom]acecombat[/nom]North Korea!!! After Clinton's visit they are probably feeling vulnerable now and are asserting their authority.[/citation]
Korea DDosed on 28.5k must have used the entire country's internet but we all know it's always China's Russia's or France's fault

 

[bison88]

I'm gonna go with 4chan lol and there "Shitter" campaign.

 

[dingumf]

Well anyways, I would like to say my thanks to whoever did this.. It shows how much faggotry there is in the world today.

Quote from Yahoo news-"I had to Google search Twitter to find out what was going on, when normally my Twitter feed gives me all the breaking news I need," said Alison Koski, a New York public-relations manager. She added she felt "completely lost" without Twitter.

 

[matt87_50]

wow, if i didn't know any better, id say it was me, i'm all for the downfall of social networking as it is today

 

[seboj]

Doesn't matter who did it - it always leads back to 4chan.

/b/

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]spaz480[/nom]is it a jackal?[/citation]
No it's an Elite.

 

[nachowarrior]

[citation][nom]IzzyCraft[/nom]Korea DDosed on 28.5k must have used the entire country's internet but we all know it's always China's Russia's or France's fault[/citation]

actually some regions of korea have a ridiculous connection speeds. I don't know why you're commenting with 28.5k? average cost of a 60meg connection is 25 usd over there. and that's considered "average".
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=14800041
anyway, having said that, there's always going to be massive attacks on big sites due to the fact that there are a ton of people that don't know their system is part of a botnet, or just don't care except to call "dell" or "HP" and whine about their "slow computer". I like the idea of the isp's identifying ip addresses being used for possible attacks and blocking them... but that isn't the case with rogue isp's.