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Russian Hackers Eyed in Attack on Twitter, Google and Facebook
Anti-Georgia Russian hackers may have been behind yesterday’s global cyber attacks on Google, Facebook and Twitter.
The organised web assaults completely shut down social networking site Twitter and disrupted access to Facebook — nearly a year to the day since the outbreak of the Georgia-Russia war.
Search engine Google was also targeted but managed to fend off [...]
Koobface Returns, Twitter knocked Offline
Twitter confirmed the outage was linked to malicious attackers in a brief status message posted around 11:00 a.m EST. “We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.”
The denial-of-service attack coincides with the launch of a new Koobface malware run using Twitter messages as a distribution vector for fake security software [...]
Hackers Attack Twitter & Facebook
A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter, and Facebook also said it was looking into possible site problems.
Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was “defending against a denial-of-service attack,” in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from [...]
US Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace and Facebook
The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately.
“These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday.
The [...]
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