Facebook & Twitter paralyzed attack DDos Hacker With Russia

The leading social network sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and paralyzed for several hours, Thursday (6 / 8), the effects of DDoS attacks (distributeed denial of sevice). The attack is carried out "zombie-zombie internet" or is called a botnet for this is even possible infection thousands of millions of personal computers and office in the world.




The botnet attack was ruled a botnet-treated secretly to overwhelm access to these sites simultaneously. As a result, not less than 300 million users Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal can not access due to traffic that is too high even make the server down.

Twitter experienced paralysis due to about three hours since the attack that occurred at 23:00 WIB. During the three hours, about 35 million Twitter users can not send any messages. Facebook interference reported the same experience about 250 million users. While interruption of LiveJournal to report 21 million users.

"This is really a very off the attack," said Stephen Tanase, senior analyst of Kaspersky as quoted from UsaToday. None of the attacks that happen again since February 2000. At that time, a bocaha aged 15 years who named himself Mafiaboy ordered botnet-botnet to kill Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Etrade, ZDnet, and CNN.

With the hamstring and sites like Twitter, as if attackers want to show how terrible botnet network in the world. Security analyst from the company's antivirus AV, Roger Thompson estimates 40 percent of computers connected to the Internet is currently infected with botnet. However, users often do not realize the dangerous program that hide themselves and behave reasonably so difficult antivirus detected. (Kompas)

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Russian Hackers Behind DDos Attacks, says Facebook

Social networking site Facebook says that Georgia anti-Russian hackers may be responsible for Thursday's global denial-of-service attacks, which caused Google and social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LiveJournal to experience brief periods of downtime.

Nearly one year after the Georgia-Russia war began, Twitter suffered about three hours of downtime on early Thursday while Facebook and LiveJournal also suffered brief outages.

Though it has still not been confirmed who is behind the attack, Facebook told UK's Guardian and BBC News that it believes that the Russian government ordered the attack.

Facebook told the UK media outlets that the attack was Targeted at a pro-Georgian activist blogger known as Cyxymu, who had Previously criticized Russia for the way it handled the war over the South Ossetia region.

The social network site also issued a statement that said the attack on Facebook, Twitter and LiveJournal, where Cyxymu had accounts, "appears to be directed at an individual who has a presence on a number of sites, rather than the sites themselves" and was intended "to keep his voice from being heard."

Search engine Google was also a major target of the DDos attack, but managed to steer clear of any service disruptions.

The company said in a statement that its "systems prevented substantive impact to [its] services".

Google did not specify which services were Targeted, but many believe that the company's Gmail and YouTube services were attacked.

This is not the first time that anti-Russian Georgian hackers have used the Internet to get their message out.

Last July, the pro-Russian hackers defaced more than 300 Lithuanian sites banned with the hammer and sickle and five-pointed star symbols, as well as profane messages. (thewhir)