Twitter knocked offline once again

by Stevie Smith - Aug 12 2009, 15:00

Already hit by an untimely service outage after a sudden Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack pulled it offline, hugely popular micro-blogging site Twitter has once again fallen off the grid after being targeted by another attack.

The source of the new attack, which resulted in a service outage of around 30 minutes, is presently unknown but Twitter has said in a blog post that it is “analyzing the traffic data to determine the nature of this attack.”

Speaking with AFP earlier this week, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the site was in the process of recovering from the initial DoS attack that crippled the service for around two hours and similarly affected other networking services such as Facebook, Blogger and LiveJournal.

“Twitter continues improving system response such that inevitable denial-of-service attacks such as those we saw last week don’t interfere with normal operations,” outlined Twitter in its statement. “We make every effort to keep folks updated.”

The original attack is believed to have been targeted against social networking accounts held by Georgian blogger ‘Cyxymu’ who is known for penning contentious opinions regarding the violent struggle between Russia and breakaway state Georgia.

Learn more about the DoS attack that brought Twitter to its knees by reading The Tech Herald’s existing coverage as amassed by Steve Ragan.

The Tech Herald: Denial-of-Service attack hits Twitter -- hype floodgates open

 

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