Date:07/08/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/08/07/stories/2009080760001000.htm
National Twitter hacked New York: A hacker attack on 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 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 getting through. For Twitter users, the outage meant no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down. The Twitter outage began at about 9 a.m. (1830 IST), said Ken Godskind, chief strategy officer at web performance monitoring company AlertSite. The site still had lingering access problems midday. - AP To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
