Just say "no" to DDoS attacks August 7, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Do you remember what happened one year ago today?
Do remember what happened to Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal over the last 36 hours?
Given the rumors that the DDoS attacks on these three social networks were carried out by Russian hackers/crackers I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to assume that the DDoS attacks were linked with the one year anniversary of the Georgia/Russia war (that would be the eastern-European ex-soviet country named Georgia, not the state in the USA). Especially given Facebook’s report that only one person was being targeted in all these attacks, a pro-Georiga blogger going by the name “Cyxymu” on all the targeted social networking sites.
Is it too much to assume that pro-Russian interests wanted to silence this blogger on the anniversary of a war that, while probably the fault of both parties involved, seemed to make most people more angry at Russia than at Georgia?
Not really sure what my point is (and I gotta run so I can’t flush it out anymore), but I think it might be this message to whomever thought it would be fun to disrupt multiple online services just to attack one person: fuck you.
-j
It’s appalling to me that one person targeting one other person CAN shut down some of the main social networking sites worldwide. It boggles my mind.