The ongoing attacks Thursday on Facebook and the micro-publishing site Twitter likely involve tens of thousands of compromised computers under the control of a single person. Likely the attack involves asking the sites to serve up a page of search results, or some other processor-intensive requests. That makes it hard to determine if the request is real query by a user or a malicious fake.
There’s no rational explanation for the attack other than that the sites are popular, according to Peterson, leaving only the conclusion that the botnet’s master is simply crazy.
Read the rest of the Wired article by Ryan Singel here.
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