DDoS Attack Insight: Facebook's Security Lead on Georgian Blogger Targeting

Great coverage on the Twitter/FB DDoS on CIO. CNET also has several articlesThe denial of service (DOS) attacks which knocked Twitter offline and slowed down Facebook response times yesterday may have been designed to target just one individual.

Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, said the problems experienced by those trying to access the two sites, as well as LiveJournal and Blogger, may have been motivated by efforts to silence a Georgian blogger on the one-year anniversary of Georgia's invasion of South Ossetia.

The blogger, who has accounts on all four of the sites under the name 'Cyxymu', was an outspoken critic of the 2008 South Ossetia War, also known as the Russia-Georgia War, which began on August 7 2008.

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