Politic is responsible for Twitter outage and others
A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
The blogger, who uses the account name “Cyxymu,” (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET News.
“It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard,” Kelly said.
In the distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the sites, computers that have been compromised by viruses or other malware are instructed by the attacker’s computer to visit the specific Web sites all at the same time and repeatedly. The barrage of connection requests overwhelms the target sites, making it so that legitimate Web traffic can’t get through.
Source: CNet
Alors, si une question politique est en partie responsable de ces événements, il est fort possible que nous ayons droit à un exemple de la prochaine guerre électronique dont nous avons tant entendu parler. Obama a mis la cybercriminalité comme une de ces priorités justement parce que les USA sont très vulnérables à ce genre d’attaque. Voyons voir ce que cet événement provoquera chez nos leaders du Sud.