<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e4da5aa5-dc88-46bd-9849-e34ea0e9fcc3/599E08F2-ABD9-4905-8233-39713D77C4CD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.kyw1060.com/Twitter-Web-Site-Shut-Down-Again-By-Hacker-Attack/4985108" href="http://www.kyw1060.com/Twitter-Web-Site-Shut-Down-Again-By-Hacker-Attack/4985108" style="font-size: 11px;">www.kyw1060.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kyw1060.com/Twitter-Web-Site-Shut-Down-Again-By-Hacker-Attack/4985108"><SPAN id="blurb_body"><P><STRONG> by KYW's tech reporter Bob Bicknell</STRONG></p> <P>Twitter users may have noticed things were a bit quieter on Tuesday.  That’s because for the second time in five days hackers knocked the social networking site offline.</p> <P><DIV>There was neither a tweet nor a peep from Twitter on Tuesday as the site fell victim to yet another "denial of service" attack, which overwhelmed its servers with bogus requests for information.</DIV> <A href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_TWITTER_HOW_ATTACK_WORKS?SITE=KYWAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_blank" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED"><EM>"Denial of Service" Attacks -- How They Work</EM></A></p> <P><DIV>In a blog entry, Twitter says the coordinated attacks appear to be geopolitical in nature.  Last Thursday’s attack apparently targeted a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia but forced the entire site to all but shut down (<A href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_TWITTER_OUTAGE?SITE=KYWAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_blank" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">see related story</A>). </DIV> The company says the resultant slowdown on Tuesday was the fault of defensive measures meant to counter the attack and they're working on better solutions.</p> <P> </P></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kyw1060.com/Twitter-Web-Site-Shut-Down-Again-By-Hacker-Attack/4985108"><FONT class="Box_48896852_Headline">Twitter Web Site Shut Down Again By Another Hacker Attack</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/599E08F2-ABD9-4905-8233-39713D77C4CD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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