Entries tagged "security"
Google survived Thursday's denial-of-service attack relatively unscathed. Facebook suffered some wounds. But Twitter was down for the count, underscoring the immaturity and vulnerability of its infrastructure.
A Georgian blogger was the target of the denial-of-service attack that brought Twitter down and led to outages at other social networking sites Thursday, says an executive at Facebook, whose service was affected.
Twitter is down Thursday, due to a denial of service attack, says the microblogging service. Last month, it was the victim of another security breach.
As rumors persist about a possible bid by South Korea's SK Telecom Co. Ltd. for Sprint Nextel Corp., thoughts turn to how the U.S. government might react. ...
Italy's biggest arms maker Finmeccanica SpA's $5.2 billion acquisition of DRS Technologies Inc. will require at least three separate reviews by U.S. government agencies -- and it better not forget to file notice with all three. ...
