Can not find what Ashton Kutcher was to have for breakfast this morning? Blame a denial of service on social media / microblogging popular site Twitter. Although the service was restored, the attack hit the service offline for about three hours (depending on their blog posts). A denial of service occurs when a group of computers continuously sends requests to a website, overwhelming its capacity to handle the traffic. Usually computers that are infected with this malware, and their owners are unaware that it is even happening. According to Information Week, it was a denial of service that paralyzed the popular media sites Gawker earlier this week.
Malware can strike any unprotected computer making it part of a botnet. While three in Twitter fail is not catastrophic, the same attack on the computer systems owned by a bank, health and public services could be undertaken. Keep your computer protected against viruses and malicious software not only protects your data, but also protects computer systems we all depend.
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