Meltdown

CNN has made the first move towards understanding why Cyxymu (his Twitter username) was the target of the recent DDoS attack on major sites like Livejournal, Twitter and Facebook. Cyxymu

All thanks to the DDoS attack, Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal and some Google products were down yesterday. Up till now, Twitter and Facebook users are still experiencing slowness and error messages.

The earlier speculation of the cause of the social media chaos has been confirmed. The attacks were all to silence one Georgian blogger with the username, Cyxymu (the name of

The Social Media realm has in fact been hit by the DDoS attack. The more popular social network sites have been experiencing longer load times and inaccessibility to some of

With Twitter, Facebook and Livejournal down, the evil Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack has caught the attention of Internet users, leaving them bewildered and curious. So what is DDoS?

To all of our delight, Twitter is partially up again after about one and a half hour of outrage. According to Twitter status update, it could be a denial-of-service (DoS)

Twitter is currently down and we don’t know why. Could it be due to the thousands of compromised accounts sending spam earlier today? Could it be a server overload (not