News Site in Malaysia Subjected to DOS Attack

The Malaysia Today news website has been hit by a series of denial of service attacks that crippled the site over the past week.

While it is unclear as to the origins of the attack, many people, including the tech team at Malaysia Today, believe the Malaysian government is behind the attacks.

The attacks began two weeks ago after the website ran an article on a scandal involving the…

Massive DDoS Attack On Twitter: Russian and Georgia Suspicion

Twitter was briefly shut down Thursday morning due to a massive denial-of-service attack (DDoS). The hacker/hackers are unknown, suggested perpetrators  have ranged from tech savvy individuals to Russian or Georgian sympathizers. The attack on Thursday marks exactly one year since the Russian-Georgia conflict. 

Similar attacks were found in LiveJournal, another social networking site. Facebook is “looking into” the similarities between attacks it experienced on Thursday morning and Twitter attacks.  Thankfully, Twitter…