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Georgian Blogger Believed Target of Ongoing Twitter Attack

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 7, 2009 - 8:36am.

San Francisco - A blogger residing in the Republic of Georgia is believed to be the target of a denial-of-service hacker attack that has crippled Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal this week, CNET News.com reported. "It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard," Facebook chief security officer Max Kelly told CNET. "We're actively investigating the source of the attacks, and we hope to be able to find out the individuals involved in the back end and to take action against them, if we can."

Twitter Purges Spam Accounts; Plans New Home Page

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 24, 2009 - 7:26am.

San Francisco - Twitter users may have noticed they have fewer followers on Friday, after the company purged thousands of spam accounts that have started to clog the service with unwanted pitches, TechCrunch reported.

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