Believe it or not, a blogger was the reason for the DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on Livejournal, Twitter and Facebook. It seems that Russian hackers are all out to silent Cyxymu and may be politically motivated.
According to the report on Straits Times,
Massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks intended to silence a blogger known as ‘Cyxymu’ hammered Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and LiveJournal, F-Secure researcher Mikko Hyponnen said in a message at the firm’s website.
I think this plan backfired. Instead of silencing him, he got more attention now. As of now, this Twitter followers count is at 1,420. Lets see how many more will join him.
Click Here to See Cyxymus Twitter Profile
It seems that he had said something that cause the DDOS attacked.
‘Our best guess is that these attacks were done by nationalistic Russian hackers who wanted to silence a visible online opponent.’ In ‘tweets’ at popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Cyxymu blames Russian authorities out to stifle his online commentary.
It seems that bloggers are so influential nowadays that it takes so much effort just to tell them to stop blogging or talking.
Click Here to Read the Report
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