Apparently Twitter was being hacked this afternoon causing it to actually go off-line. If the attack was launched for the purpose of a denial-of-service, then it was successful whether they gained access to Twitter’s systems or not. If they were actually trying to breach Twitter’s defenses then it appears the DoS situation was a matter of collateral damage.
Update: It was a denial-of-service attack and, according to reports, it was launched at a single person.
Hackers from Russia may have attacked Google, Twitter and Facebook in an attempt to silence a pro-Georgian blogger, it has emerged.
A year after troops from the two countries became locked in a five-day war, the co-ordinated cyber assaults shut down Twitter for a couple of hours and disrupted access for Facebook users.
The technique used involved a coordinated attack sent from perhaps thousands of compromised computers, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Investigations are underway.
August 6th, 2009
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The Senate has voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as a Justice to the Supreme Court, 68-31. I believe this was the wrong move but it’s a decision we’ll all get to live with from now on to the day Sotomayor decides to leave or dies. I believe her actions on the bench made a lie of what she told Congress in the hearings and that such a person should not be ensconced in a position of such power. I wrote about my reasons for feeling this way before and no one has provided a single shred of justified argumentation to address them.
But it’s done, now. Time to shift to other battles on other battlefields.
August 6th, 2009
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Former Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) has been convicted in federal court on several counts including bribery and money laundering:
A former U.S. congressman was convicted Wednesday of taking bribes in a case in which agents found $90,000 in his freezer.
Former Rep. William Jefferson, a Democrat who had represented parts of New Orleans, was accused of accepting more than $400,000 in bribes and seeking millions more in exchange for brokering business deals in Africa. A federal jury convicted him on 11 of 16 counts, including bribery, racketeering and money laundering.
Interesting conviction, considering the moves various Congresscritters took to distract attention away from Jefferson’s criminal activity. It’s nice to see that a jury of American citizens had better priorities.
August 6th, 2009
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