Russia and Georgia DDoS shitfighting to blame for Twitter downtime.
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[url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/169809/twitter_ddos_attack_politically_motivated_says_report.html[/url]
[quote]Twitter DDoS Attack Politically Motivated, Says Report
Ian Paul, PC World
Aug 7, 2009 7:45 am
Twitter DDoS Attack Politically Motivated, says ReportThe distributed denial of service attack on Thursday that targeted Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and several Google sites may have been politically motivated. The reported target of these attacks was a blogger named Cyxymu from the Eastern European country of Georgia who is an outspoken supporter of his country. Facebook's chief security officer, Max Kelly has said the attack was coordinated to "keep his [Cxymu's] voice from being heard," according to Cnet.
If Kelly is right, then the cyber attack may have been coordinated by Russian hackers or those with Russian sympathies. Tensions have been heightened between Russia and Georgia since last year's brief war between the two countries over the contested region of South Ossetia. There is no clear evidence as to who perpetrated yesterday's cyber attack, but Cxyxmu earlier today suggested the attack was perpetrated by the KGB -- the now-defunct security agency for the former Soviet Union.
Although yesterday's DoS attack targeted a wide range of social network and blogging sites, it was only Twitter that suffered a significant outage. Facebook and LiveJournal suffered slowdowns as a result of the attack, while Google users were not significantly impacted. Kelly reportedly told Cnet that it was able to maintain access to Cxymu's profile for users in the Georgian region, but the Facebook profile was inaccessible in other parts of the world. At the time of this writing on Friday morning, Cxymu's Twitter page was available, but the blogger's Facebook profile and LiveJournal blog were inaccessible.
Graphic: Diego Aguirre
While Cnet was able to get a statement from Kelly, Facebook has not yet released an official statement about the target of the attack; however, the social network has linked to the Cnet story from the company's own profile. Google, LiveJournal and Twitter have yet to discuss the target or possible sources of the attack.
Denial of service attacks are able to bring down a Web site by overwhelming the site's servers with a large number of page view requests. The number of requests coming all at once makes it impossible for the servers to handle the traffic load eventually making the site inaccessible to users. DoS attacks are typically carried out by a botnet -- a large network of compromised computers that can be controlled from one source.
The Dos attack wasn't the only attack reportedly targeted at Cxymu. An e-mail spam attack was also recently carried out where messages made to look like they came from Cxymu were sent to a large number of recipients. The e-mail messages contained links to Cxymu's sites. At this time it's unclear if the attacks were coordinated by the same hacker or hackers as the DoS attack. But it's unlikely the e-mail spoof was the source of the DoS attack, because it would have been very difficult to trigger through e-mail spam the large number of page view requests required for several coordinated DoS attacks. [/quote]
Just the cover for the nuke
:tinfoil:
fucking russians, first they attack georgia for no reason and now they try to keep them from speaking out
[quote]Cxyxmu earlier today suggested the attack was perpetrated by the KGB -- the now-defunct security agency for the former Soviet Union.[/quote]
Time warp.
[QUOTE=RichardNixon;16539369]Time warp.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ7msthcyuc[/media]
What's that gotta do with anything?
Russia is behind everything.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;16539580]Russia is behind everything.[/QUOTE]
They're even behind you making the O face.
O~ O~ O~
Go russia, ddos shitty services
[quote]Cxyxmu earlier today suggested the attack was perpetrated by the KGB -- the now-defunct security agency for the former Soviet Union.[/quote]
[quote]attack was perpetrated by the [b]KGB[/b][/quote]
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*ding ding*
I do believe Russian government is somehow stuck in time back in the times where they could actually control the flow of information.
You can't stop the internet. He'll just blog and be heard elsewhere.
If the KGB is now dissolved, how could it be them? Wouldn't it have to be the FSB or SVR?
Those crazy Russians :monocle:
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;16539364]fucking russians, first they attack georgia for no reason and now they try to keep them from speaking out[/QUOTE]
georgia did it.
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;16539364]fucking russians, first they attack georgia for no reason and now they try to keep them from speaking out[/QUOTE]
Georgia was murdering Russian citizens.
[QUOTE=Detective P;16540071]If the KGB is now dissolved, how could it be them? Wouldn't it have to be the FSB or SVR?[/QUOTE]
They are still alive and kickin, they're fucking spies, they just don't operate offically
KGB was dissolved along with the rest of the USSR after the failed coup in 1991. Nowadays there's a new one that took its place.
[QUOTE=Detective P;16540071]If the KGB is now dissolved, how could it be them? Wouldn't it have to be the FSB or SVR?[/QUOTE]
After the KGB was dissolved they pretty much went to those agency's. Maybe the KGB still operates. There's a good chance they do.
[QUOTE=Detective P;16540071]If the KGB is now dissolved, how could it be them? Wouldn't it have to be the FSB or SVR?[/QUOTE]
If you knew, there'd be no point.
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;16539364]fucking russians, first they attack georgia for no reason and now they try to keep them from speaking out[/QUOTE]
subtly perfect
While thoughs rumours about russians responsible for this attack may be true, don't you think that those who started attack understood that it won't really stop that blogger but make him more popular?
So I'm guessing now one of these:
1. Russians were really stupid to do such attack. Possible, but what are the real benefits for them?
2. It could be some step to attract attention to that blogger personally or probably to attract attention to Russian-Georgian conflict and make Russia to look bad (evil empire with lots of evil hackers :D ). Looks pretty much possible to me especially since this event occured almostly at 1 year anniversary of the war in osettia.
3. The third possibility... I wouldn't like this to be true... but cannot it be attack planned by some political forces in USA? The benefits are clear: now more people would support some law that would restrict freedom of internet usage and make goverment easier to spy on USA citizens? Also damaging Russian image is always a nice bonus :)
What are your thoughts on the above? Also are there any other possibilities that I missed? I do not believe that it was just accident... it was definitely planned by someone... but by whom???
[QUOTE=at2010;17553160]While thoughs rumours about russians responsible for this attack may be true, don't you think that those who started attack understood that it won't really stop that blogger but make him more popular?
So I'm guessing now one of these:
1. Russians were really stupid to do such attack. Possible, but what are the real benefits for them?
2. It could be some step to attract attention to that blogger personally or probably to attract attention to Russian-Georgian conflict and make Russia to look bad (evil empire with lots of evil hackers :D ). Looks pretty much possible to me especially since this event occured almostly at 1 year anniversary of the war in osettia.
3. The third possibility... I wouldn't like this to be true... but cannot it be attack planned by some political forces in USA? The benefits are clear: now more people would support some law that would restrict freedom of internet usage and make goverment easier to spy on USA citizens? Also damaging Russian image is always a nice bonus :)
What are your thoughts on the above? Also are there any other possibilities that I missed? I do not believe that it was just accident... it was definitely planned by someone... but by whom???[/QUOTE]
Wow you registered just to bump this?
On-topic: Oh god twitter is down, what will we do with our lives now?! :emo:
[QUOTE=Retardation;17553265]Fuck you, Russia is awesome.[/QUOTE]
I do believe you got hit by Chernobyl disaster and got radiated and thus became retarded.
Also your avatar refers to that and your username.
No offence of course.
[QUOTE=NotMeh;17553184]Wow you registered just to bump this?
On-topic: Oh god twitter is down, what will we do with our lives now?! :emo:[/QUOTE]
unfortunately this board does not allow anonymous posts.. LOL though registering took just 2 mins.
Answering to your question: I came accross this twitter attack issue by accident just now (more than month after this events). And while I agree that turning twitter down does not make real harm to anyone I was surprised to see that news and discussions on forums for some reason tend to speak about only one version: russian hackers... so I though if it is only me who thinks that other versions are possible? For some reason I could not find on the web any other versions except the one about russian hackers :)
World War III lads, only it'll all be fought online and the winner will be determined by a coin toss.
[QUOTE=TheForeigner;17553399]I do believe you got hit by Chernobyl disaster and got radiated and thus became retarded.
Also your avatar refers to that and your username.
No offence of course.[/QUOTE]
Ukraine, Fuck tard.
[QUOTE=at2010;17553764]unfortunately this board does not allow anonymous posts.. LOL
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There is a reason for that and [i]that[/i] post is the reason you heartless fiend!