Twitter down - Attacked by DOS

suprised like most people

 

Never used twitter, never will

Should a site the size of twitter have anti DOS defences?

 

(from the Cnet article)

 

A pro-Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.

The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the former Soviet Republic) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET News.

"It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard," Kelly said. "We're actively investigating the source of the attacks and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them if we can."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10305200-245.html

 

Any server and hosting facing ddos attack must rely on anti-ddos firewall or they have to shut down the site temporarily .
Hoping they can find the source and solve it.

 

I can' access twitter last night and today...Its too bad.......

 

I never use it though.There are many other sites

 

That explains everything

 

Will these big companies sue this person if he's found? Be interesting to know...