The Russians are still coming...

U.S. Marines block social networking sites

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Marines block social networks, concerned about security

Posted by Sam Diaz @ 12:21 pm

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Twitter shut down caused by Russia/Georgia cyber warfare?

Some experts claim that Russian cyber attacks were directed at a pro-Georgia user.http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-103052…

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Is someone blocking me on Twitter or is it a Twitter glitch?

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Hey friends! The "russians" (aka. US military) still have control of my browsers on all social networks but not the TweetDeck yet

The following error message occurs if I try to access my Twitter account 24/7...

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This webpage is not available.

The webpage at http://twitter.com/timeline/home might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

More information on this error

Below is the original error message

Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): Unknown error.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

Yeah, it was a DDoS (multiple computers) attack rather than a single Dos attack so a great deal of planning had to be done... Trouble is, most anti-virus programs have a VERY hard time with command attacks in general... they do not act like traditional malware...

A very strong firewall may do more good in a case like this but it is certainly not a guarantee... This has to do more with the web server site more than anything.... all it takes is one rouge request to slip by to eventually launch several millions of requests all at once... thus overloading the server to the point it shuts down... and they are not that easy to re-fire...

Cyxymu, Blogger Targeted In Twitter, Facebook Attack, Blames Russia

BBC NEWS :

A blogger who was targeted in a co-ordinated attack against websites such as Facebook and Twitter has told the BBC he blames Russia for the assault.

Read the whole story: BBC NEWS