Posted on 06 August 2009
The most renowned and most visited site of micro-blogging Twitter is under a malicious cyber-attack. Twitter system went offline after this attack this Thursday morning, Still while I am writing this story its not working properly and the twitters from all around the world are unable to access it.
About Twitter’s hacking incident Twitter executive Biz Stone said in an official blog post.
“ Twitter is the target of denial of service attack,”
The denial of service attack is a technique in which hackers bombard a website’s servers with communications requests.
Twitter executive Biz Stone further said that we are defending this attack and will update our blog and will investigate this attack after defending this cyber attack.
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