The more critical, visible or popular a website, the more prone they become to hacker attacks. Social media giants Twitter and Facebook experienced this today.
Both sites came under – probably related – hacker attacks today, bringing Twitter down, and Facebook onto its knees. The attacks were of a basic DoS (Denial of Service) types where, for malicious intents, a high volume of network traffic or network requests are sent to a server, tying up its resources up to the point where ‘legitimate’ users can no longer connect.
DoS attacks are pretty easy to orchestrate and often used to attack government sites, payment services and the like.
More sophisticated hacks targeting Twitter in the past months broke into several user accounts, posting fake messages.
Even at the moment of writing this post, Twitter is still down. The social media community is in mourning.
Peter. Flemish, European, aid worker, blogger, expeditioner, sailor, traveller, husband, father, friend, nutcase. Not necessarily in that order. (
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Hacking became easy now
everybody are trying to hack something they want.