Russian Hackers Responsible For Twitter Outage

Logan Westbrook

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Russian Hackers Responsible For Twitter Outage


Security experts believe that the DDoS that took down Twitter originated in Russia.

It sounds like the plot of a really weird James Bond movie, but the distributed denial of service attack that targeted Twitter and Facebook was apparently the work of Russian hackers.

According to a spokesperson for Facebook a Georgian blogger - from the country, not the state - known as Cyxymu was the target of the attacks which also included the site LiveJournal [http://www.livejournal.com] and YouTube [http://www.youtube.com].

"It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting [Cyxymu] to keep his voice from being heard," said Max Kelly, a senior security adviser at Facebook. "We're actively investigating the source of the attacks and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them if we can."

"I write the truth about the Russian-Georgian war and somebody did not like these truths - these people in Russia," Cyxymu - real name Georgy - told BBC News."I don't know which people," adding, "it's a big surprise to me that my blog has meant that 250m people have not been able to enter Facebook."

Graham Cluley, of security firm Sophos, said that there is no reason to believe that this is the work of the Russian government: "It was almost certainly an individual who took objection to his blogs," he said, "they took internet vigilantism into their own hands to try to blast him off the web, but in the process blasted Twitter off instead."

Source: The Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/5988460/Russian-hackers-launched-Twitter-attack-to-silence-Georgian-blogger.html] and BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8190786.stm]


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GodsOneMistake

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In soviet russia twitter hacks you...
[small]sorry I had too[/small]

Damn bloggers always over reacting
 

Doug

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GodsOneMistake said:
In soviet russia twitter hacks you...
[small]sorry I had too[/small]

Damn bloggers always over reacting
Wasn't the blogger, was the attacker who launched the massive attack - some idiot who couldn't stand the idea that this guy from Georgia had a different opinion to him, probably, and felt he had to punish the website owners as well as the blogger
 

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GodsOneMistake said:
In soviet russia twitter hacks you...
[small]sorry I had too[/small]

Like this?

Anyway, that really does seem like a stupid thing to do over such a little thing.
 

Rigs83

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The Chinese do the same thing every time we bomb one of their embassies or a Japanese Prime Minister goes to the World War 2 memorial that honors all the Japanese Generals considered war criminals every where else..
 

Lord_Ascendant

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I would make a "all Russian technology sucks" joke but i don't think it appropriate. And I thought if Putin didn't like someone they would be dragged down into hell in 3 days.
 

Nurb

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and in the rest of the world, people try to give Iranians access to twitter to give them a voice...
 

hansari

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Doug said:
Wasn't the blogger, was the attacker who launched the massive attack - some idiot who couldn't stand the idea that this guy from Georgia had a different opinion to him, probably, and felt he had to punish the website owners as well as the blogger
Funny in a depressing way...

But hey, why would Russia care? The Georgians can whine all they want...so long as they don't decide to actively seek secession...

Then Putin calls in the cavalry...

 

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I'm going to have to get revenge by working for a shady government agency to the point where me and my pot smoking friend shoot down a helicopter in order for the Agency to bring them over to the states so I can choose whether or not to kill them.
 

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DarkRyter said:
I'm going to have to get revenge by working for a shady government agency to the point where me and my pot smoking friend shoot down a helicopter in order for the Agency to bring them over to the states so I can choose whether or not to kill them.
I'm pretty sure that only works if you're from 'an unknown eastern block country' and already know who you're looking for.
 

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The Irony is that they conducted this attack in order to silence this guy and instead they have let everyone in the western world know about him and made the guy an international cause celebre.

Georgia 1 Russia 0 methinks