Sunday, June 24, 2012

Dear Bloggers,
It seems like the most common question these days are “where were you when twitter went down?”. If you read the comments on twitter (and I don’t) however, they are reiterated within news stories about the event. This apparently was a major catastrophe last Thursday and yet……not being twitterpated myself, I’m came away from it completely unscathed. I’m almost disappointed I missed it. Now the big question is…..what really happened? Twitter blames a “cascading bug” found in an infrastructure component (that would be a new one for me). However, an individual by the name of Cosmo from the hacking group UGNazi has claimed responsibility for the outage citing a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. The folks at Twitter remain firm in their response to the attack with a “we don’t have a comment on that”. Even with Thursday’s outage, Twitter is experiencing its highest period of reliability in the last six months. So while Cosmo might have caused a stir, it seems like it’s just a bump in the road for the Twitter machine.
What are your thoughts?
Until next time…..

Reference
Claburn, T. (2012, June). Twitter Crash: Hack Or Hardware Fail? Retrieved from http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/240002516

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