Sites of the foremost social network like Twitter, Facebook, and Livejournal paralysis for several hours, resulting from the attack DDoS (distributeed denial of sevice). This attack was carried out "zombie-zombie the internet" or was mentioned botnet that uptil now has infected thousands even possibly millions of personal computers and the office all over the world. The perpetrators of the attack governed botnet-botnet that was maintained by him secretly to flood access to these sites together. As a result, not less than 300 million users Twitter, Facebook, and Livejournal could not access resulting from the too high traffic in fact made server down.
Twitter experienced paralysis around three hours resulting from the attack that had happened since striking 23,00 of WIB. until three hours, around 35 million users Twitter could not send the message anything. Facebook reported the same disturbance was experienced by approximately 250 million users. Whereas Livejournal reported the disturbance to his 21 million users. "This really the very deadly attack," said Stephen Tanase, the senior analyst from Kaspersky like seenthing quoted from UsaToday. There was no attack as big as that that happened again since February 2000. At that time, a person bocaha was 15 years old that called himself Mafiaboy ordered botnet-botnet to paralyze Yahoo, eBay, the Amazon, Etrade, ZDnet, and CNN.
By paralyzing Twitter and the similar site, the aggressor seem like want to showed how great is the network botnet in the world. The security analyst from the company antivirus AV, Roger Thompson estimated 40 percent computer that connect to the internet at this time was infected botnet. However, the user did not realize because often the dangerous program hid itself and behaved natural so as to be difficult to be detected antivirus.
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