Russian Hackers Responsible For Twitter Outage

[Booze Zombie]

The irony is that this guy has more coverage now, silly hacker.

 

[nekolux]

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.

I don't like the sound of that word. Seems as if it's just someone trying to get attention from the outage. You guys should treat these kind of news with more skepticism, this hardly seems likely. Plus they were probably tracking the machines that were used by the hacker to execute the DDOS attack. Not the hacker's machine itself.

 

[Fudgo]

"Fellas, can't we all just get along?"

But really, is it just a coincidence that the pro-Georgan guy was also named Georgy?

 

[Jennacide]

Oh interwebs, you always amuse me. When someone writes a worm or uses a script to create a DDOS attack, they're instantly a hacker. I guess far too many people grew up on the horrible movie Hackers and thought it was based in reality.

 

[Faeanor]

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]Please do it again, but only to Twitter. The reactions are hilarious.

These 'reactions' you speak of intrigue me and I wish to find out more.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124960455068513013.html
Read this. This is what we've been reduced to. Pathetic.

I read this and all the comments and I can't tell if this article is being serious or not. If it is being serious, that's just disgraceful to all human life as we know it. I'll add my voice in the "who the fuck cares!?!" chorus. Not only that, but it was down for 2 hours. Two freaking hours that people couldn't hear that somebody was attending a bris or got a new pair of jeans.

To the hackers: Whatever your goal was/is, next time just make sure you get twitter and grind it into the ground. It might encourage people to interact with real human beings and not their 140 character anecdotal tales of life.

 

[[Gavo]]

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]Please do it again, but only to Twitter. The reactions are hilarious.

These 'reactions' you speak of intrigue me and I wish to find out more.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124960455068513013.html
Read this. This is what we've been reduced to. Pathetic.

I read this and all the comments and I can't tell if this article is being serious or not. If it is being serious, that's just disgraceful to all human life as we know it. I'll add my voice in the "who the fuck cares!?!" chorus. Not only that, but it was down for 2 hours. Two freaking hours that people couldn't hear that somebody was attending a bris or got a new pair of jeans.

That's what I was wondering too. I thought for a sec it was satire, but then I realized that the WSJ doesn't put satire on the front page.
It's people like this that make me wish the hackers blew up Twitter.

 

[scotth266]

Well, this is interesting. DRAMA ON T3H INTRAWEBZ!!!

But seriously, whoever did this has probably pissed a lot of people off, and I wouldn't be surprised if he got a swift reprimand when found.

Like, say, a lawsuit.

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

Whoever did this is amazing, but needs to finish the job on the place. Twitter has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of, and people freaking out because they can't announce what pointless stuff they're doing to the world really shows how stupid people are as a whole. "But I can't tell them I'm in a diner eatin a burger, what now?!?" JohnnyUtah of Newgrounds (made Tankmen) put it pretty well in his flash [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/498203].

 

[Dorian Cornelius Jasper]

Yeah right, this Georgian dude was spreading propaganda about how Russia attacked first and got his just punishment.

Doesn't look like he got punished at all. Thanks to the incident he's become much more well-known and sympathetic. The only things that actually suffered from the attack were Twitter and Facebook which, might I add, didn't do anything wrong other than be mildly annoying to the internet at large.