Archive for August, 2009
Twitter’s Denial of Service Attack
August 6th, 2009 | 
Author: On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we continue to defend and later investigate.
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http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/denial-of-service-attack.html
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Twitter hit by denial of service attack
(CNN) — An attack on the social networking site Twitter shut the site down for about two hours on Thursday morning, causing headaches in the online community and glitches in other Web sites like Facebook.
In an e-mail to CNN.com, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the site was hit with a “denial of service attack,” or an attempt to shut the site down by overwhelming it with traffic.
“There’s no indication that this attack is related to any previous activities. We are currently the target of a denial of service attack,” Stone said in the e-mail.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/06/twitter.attack/index.html
Windows 7 bug likely not a ‘showstopper’
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it is looking into reports of a potential bug in the final version of Windows 7. However, Microsoft’s top Windows executive said in a blog posting that the issue appears to be neither widespread, nor the “showstopper” that some are claiming it to be.
(Credit: Microsoft)The issue, noted on several enthusiast sites this week, involves a fairly arcane process used to check for problems in a particular disk. Under certain scenarios, the site suggested Windows 7 would siphon off all the available memory to perform the scan, potentially crashing the system.
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CNETNewsWindows 7 bug likely not a ‘showstopper’ http://bit.ly/3SidC
EA Reports Higher Earnings For PS3 Than Xbox 360
Electronic Arts has revealed that its PC, PlayStation 3 and Wii sales for the quarter ending June 30 were significantly higher than sales for its Xbox 360 titles.
MCVUK reports that Wii sales generated $161 million, a solid jump over last year’s $109 million, and PC sales topped $124 million. However, the most compelling disparity was between the PS3 and 360 sales, with the PS3 generating $121 million and the 360 pulling in just $73 million.
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TheFeedEA Reports Higher Earnings For PS3 Than Xbox 360 http://tinyurl.com/l7d95m
Wii Sports Resort Has Already Sold 500,000 Copies
Well, this is a surprise to no one: Wii Sports Resort is selling very, very well. So well, in fact, Nintendo’s already issued a press release announcing Wii Sports Resort has sold more than 500,000 copies since its launch on July 26. That’s just over a week and Nintendo has already moved half a million copies of the much anticipated sequel.
Have you picked up your copy yet?
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TheFeed Wii Sports Resort Has Already Sold 500,000 Copies http://tinyurl.com/mubtyg