I am sure you all are aware that Twitter was the target of a DDOS attack yesterday. The attack crippled the site and caused it to crash for almost 3 hours. Today Twitter is up but is still having serious functional issues. A certain number of apps are disabled, and users are not able to use simple user options. Twitter is still very much under attack, and Biz Stone has stated that it is politically motivated.
“The ongoing, massively coordinated attacks on Twitter this week appear to have been geopolitical in motivation.”
The sites defenses are currently being fortified, but the threat is ongoing. Biz Stone stated “In the past 24 hours, we’ve been contending with a variety of attacks that continue to change in nature and intensity. ” He also went on to say “no data or personal information of any kind has been compromised,” so the good news is that you, as an individual user, are not in danger.
Although losing money is never good for a company, EA is reporting a loss of only $6 million for their fist quarter. Good news for the struggling publisher. It is a significant improvement over EA’s loss of $135 million from last year, which was the result of poor sales.
