Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user | InSecurity Complex - CNET News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10305200-245.html
Scary news story on SN outage all being about targetting one user
Why were Twitter and Facebook down for much of August 7, 2009? It looks like it was a denial of service attack... aimed at just a single person. Probably not a good strategy - taking out the network to silence an individual - because it mobilizes so many resources to fix the problem (people wouldn't care so much if just a single account was hacked). But still interesting.
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