Twitter & Facebook PROBLEMS LOL

[04Jack04]

Micro-blogging service Twitter and social networking site Facebook have been severely disrupted by hackers.
Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.
The popular sites were subject to so-called denial-of-service attacks on Thursday, the companies believe.
Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.
"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," said Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on the company's blog.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8188201.stm

[GommeInc]

That'll explain why both have been acting up. Twitter was the only one reported to have gone down as far as I was aware :S

[Chippiewill]

Uh, no. It was DDoSed, not hacked.

[04Jack04]

Uh, no. It was DDoSed, not hacked.

Micro-blogging service Twitter and social networking site Facebook have been severely disrupted by hackers

Even though it does say about DDoS it did mention hackers {:

[Kardan]

It wasn't hacked. It doesn't even say it got hacked in the bloody article.

'Disrupted by hackers' does not equal 'hacked'.

[Jordy]

First of all it's been posted: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=596168

And no they were not hacked, if you bothered to read anything other than the title of the news report you would realise that.

The 'hackers' send out virus's to numerous people, the virus then takes over their computer. The hacker then has full control of their computer, they'll no doubt make it unusable and steal all things like email and bank details. They control thousands of these computers at a time. A group of these controlled computers is called a "Botnet". The hacker controls the botnet so all the computers within it all go on Twitter continually. This means that many thousands of computers are all trying to repeatedly go on Twitter at the same time, this therefore makes Twitter/Facebook crash and eventually go down. As a result of the servers being overloaded, it means that there is a bit of downtime for everytime.

Pretty much how DDoS works

[04Jack04]

It wasn't hacked. It doesn't even say it got hacked in the bloody article.

'Disrupted by hackers' does not equal 'hacked'.

Alright no need to get stressy yeah.

[Kardan]

Alright no need to get stressy yeah.

I'm not getting stressy

It's like saying a known mass murderer robbed a store and automatically saying he killed the shop owners. He didn't, he just robbed the store.

[Immenseman]

weird that big sites can be affected by it. i just know it from habbo sites lmao.

[04Jack04]

First of all it's been posted: http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=596168

And no they were not hacked, if you bothered to read anything other than the title of the news report you would realise that.

I couldn't actully care less.

I'm not getting stressy

It's like saying a known mass murderer robbed a store and automatically saying he killed the shop owners. He didn't, he just robbed the store.

You said 'if you actully bothered to read the bloody article' which is basically having a go :LLL