Twitter Panic !

August 6, 2009 · Filed Under Security, Tech · Comment 

It seems that the great Twitter is down. I am not a Twitter user but found out about it earlier this morning on TechCrunch and now they announced that it is the cause of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDOS). Of course most people would see this news and ask why are people panicking over this ? One main reason is that many websites use or depend on Twitter for certain functionality, thus, if Twitter doesn’t work then neither does there website. Another reason for the panic is that Twitter has become a news source where people around the world report incidents and news before any big news broadcaster could do it. So without no Twitter we are back to “slow” news around the world.

This brings up different topics too. Where is Twitters’ security team? If they are such a huge website then they should have better security and should had prevented this better. It also brings up the topic of Clouds computing, where people put all their eggs in one basket, and one thing breaks everything else does. This is another classic example of that. At this moment it seems that Twitter is stabilizing. Now the game should start of who is to blame? Was it a government attack?

Other websites affected some what: Facebook, LiveJournal and other smaller names.

Yasser

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Twitter Classified Documents Leaked.

July 15, 2009 · Filed Under Security, Tech · Comment 

It seems that a lot has happen over night while I was sleeping. Reading TechCrunch this morning, I learned that they received an email with plenty of confidential information leaked from Twitter. For some odd reason the users at TechCrunch have responded saying that it is unethical to publish that information, even though websites do it all the time, that is how they get the information no one else has. It seems that the hack is somewhat related to what happen back in May where someone got access to several high profile accounts. To have gathered all this information the hacker must have been working from the inside or gone pretty deep in with his hack, unless Twitter security sucks.

The only thing TechCrunch has revealed so far from the documents is the announced TV Show that Twitter was/is thinking of doing called Final Tweet? It is a reality show where people have to complete tasks or mission, assuming that somehow like the amazing race but users Tweet about their updates and what they are up to and users could respond back to help them. If they still plan to do it I hope its more like they join some reality show that already exists because if they trying to start a new one then it smells like failure.

Update: Information about Twitter financial plans and earnings projected.

Lets see what else will TechCrunch be releasing any time soon…

Yasser

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