Twitter and Facebook cyber-attack 'aimed at lone Georgian blogger' | Mail OnlineA cyber attack that caused misery for millions of Facebook and Twitter users may have been a deliberate attempt to silence just one activist blogger, it was claimed tonight.
The 'massively coordinated attack' - which caused chaos across the worldwide web - was thought to have originated from Russia.
Their apparent aims was to block a pro-Georgian blogger posting his thoughts on the first anniversary of the start of last year's five-day war between Russia and Georgia.
The attack spread through popular websites such as Facebook, micro-blogging site Twitter and Google, causing chaos on Wednesday.
Today, security experts at Facebook claimed the online campaign targeted just one person, a Georgian blogger going by the name of Cyxymu.
But others said the assault could have been a test run for blackmail attempts or even extortion.
The co-ordinated cyber assault caused disruptions to Facebook and managed to shut down Twitter for a couple of hours for its army of 3 million Uk subcribers
Google managed to stop the 'denial of service' campaign, but another site, LiveJournal was also affected
The hacking technique works by making thousands of attempts from an army of infected computers to contact a single site at the same time.
A Russian tank rolls past a house set on fire by South Ossetian militia in the Georgian village of Kvemo-Achebeti in August 2008. Blogger 'Cyxymu' is an outspoken critic of the conflict
This results in a huge cyber jam, blocking legitimate traffic to the websites.
Graham Cluley, of internet security specialist Sophos, said: 'It's a bit like 15 fat men trying to get through a revolving door at the same time — nothing can move. In the meantime, micro-bloggers around the world are likely to be left twiddling their thumbs.'
Max Kelly, of Facebook, said: 'It was a simultaneous attack across a number of properties targeting him to keep his voice from being heard.
'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.'
Facebook has more than 250 million users worldwide the hackers also used something called a 'botnet' in an attempt to crash the websites.
The Twitter blogsite, which confirmed the outage was due to a cyber-attack
Large amounts of spam emails were sent out containing a link to the activist blogging websites.
When thousands of people clicked on the links at the same time some servers were overwhelmed by the demand.
'The attacks appear to be directed at an individual who has a presence on a number of sites, rather than the sites themselves,' said Mr Kelly.
Security experts also said that criminals are increasingly threatening to sabotage websites who refuse to pay ransoms.
Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone said: 'Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack.'
The site has seen a huge rise in popularity in recent months and it is now the 38th most visited site in Britain.
Google said: 'Google systems prevented substantive impact to our services. We are aware that a handful of non-Google sites were impacted by a DOS attack, and are in contact with some affected companies to help investigate this attack.'
August 7, 2009
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Blergh! Could you eat these strange canned foods? | Wise BreadPackinghouse guy torches Tinkered odiousness is a dish with real bite. Sorry, couldn't resist. I'm not entirely sure what kind of Fish Mouths are in this can of strangeness, but I'm not in a huge rush to find out either. Catfish maybe? I have heard fish cheeks are devine though.
I'd eat the next one. Not because I was forced but because I'd eat my shoe if it's covered in curry sauce. That's just the Brit in me. Anyway, Thai Green Curry with Crocodile sounds really good to me.
I have to admit, we're getting into territory that even I can't face now. I'll give it a try if I have to, if I was hungry enough, but canned scorpions don't have that nice ring to it.
Ooh yeshiva deserving crackups – warmongering lectureship! WHOLE chicken in a CAN - from the girl that does posts like this...tired
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You might remember I bought this at the same time I bought the canned pork brains in milk gravy. At the time, I did not fully comprehend that it was an ENTIRE chicken bones and all inside the can.
BTW you can’t see it but under the lettuce, on the far right it says “serving suggestion”. Yeah, why not also suggest you poop gold and fart jet fuel? It is also without giblets, don’t want to know what they did with those.
Here are the serving suggestions. I decided to roast it according to the instructions provided for the purest experience. It had been chilling in my fridge for a month at least before I opened it today.
When you open the can, this is what you see. Little chicken knuckles poking out from the schmaltz. I initially wanted to pull out the chicken and reserve the broth in the can, but the bones were too wiggly, so I had to pour it out.
Wow, Sweet Sue doesn’t look so sweet upside down.
My 3 year old was fascinated. That’s chocolate on his face, btw from the other taste test we did today.
And it’s out!
Close up of some sort of something. All I know is that it wasn’t the giblets, as those are not included.
I poured all of this off to roast the chicken.
Goofball wanted to make sure I got a picture of his whole face!
Bowl of reserved goo. Realized I did not in fact want to keep it and tossed it down the garbage disposal. I did taste it (the broth part, not the fat globs and mystery bits) with my finger and it was very weak like somebody had just dunked a chicken in some water.
Out of the oven after 15+ minutes at 475 as instructed. It never did get brown.
It was really scrawny!
And the taste? There really wasn’t any. The white meat was a bit more cottony than the dark meat, but it all tasted like all the flavor had been cooked out. Sort of like the little bits of chicken in condensed chicken noodle soup. I thought before cooking it that I might use the meat in some sort of chicken salad, like you’d use canned chunk chicken breast but this is seriously lacking and I don’t think anyone would eat it. I am going to strip the meat and put it out for the neighborhood cats (not in front of my house though!) it doesn’t seem too salty or anything, so I think it will be okay.
You can see all my Chicken in a Can Photos here.
Or, admire my skill in typing while dry heaving
Front of can of pork brains with milk gravy, Rose brand
Front of can of pork brains with milk gravy, Rose brand
About a month ago, there was a thread on the IHMMB forums linking to a Consumerist post called “The Worst Food Product Ever May Have Been Found“. I was surprised how many people had never heard of pork brains in milk gravy, as I’ve seen them in many grocery stores, near the Spam and canned corned beef hash. So, of course I went and bought a can. I couldn’t find the Armour brand, but I think off brand pork brains are probably just as good.
You might have noticed that both cans have the brains nestled in scrambled eggs. That’s how they are served here and you can even find them on some restaurant menus. I’ve never seen anyone order it, but I always like it when I see it on the menu. It gives me that “ahhh, I’m not eating at no dang corporate chain, no I’m eating at the restaurant of the people. The eggs n’ brains eating dadgummed heart of America” feeling.
Pork brains ingredients
Ewww nitrites!
Pork brains nutrition information 1
I’m glad they didn’t try to pull that one can equals two servings crap. Do you share your can of Sirloin Burger? I think not.
Pork brains nutrition information 2
The famous 10 days worth of cholesterol in one serving but who knew that pork brains had vitamin C?
Okay, you’re right, I was totally stalling on opening the can.
Open can of pork brains
The smell that came out of the can was like ground up vienna sausages mixed with particularly strong canned dog food. The cheap kind, not the kind that is better than what most people eat. I can still smell it, but maybe that’s because I haven’t taken out the trash yet.
Brains on a plate! Brains on a plate!
I tipped the can out onto a plate and that’s when my stomach really started to clench up and I became woozy and light-headed. I’d thought about scrambling up some eggs and tucking it inside to see if I could make it look like the picture on the front of the can but all the blood was rushing out of my head and I couldn’t imagine making it that far without vomitting or falling down. It felt as if I couldn’t walk and it was all I could do to set up the camera to take a picture. Of course, my tripod was wobbling (it’s one of those bendy legged ones) and I felt a sudden fear that my camera would fall into the pork brains and felt as though I might cry.
Brains bring up some deep seated taboo and it distresses me to even look at them. If pigs have souls, surely they must live in the brain. And surely pigs must have souls, otherwise people wouldn’t make so many movies about them. And to eat, or even touch the house of another living being’s soul or scramble it with eggs, why that’s sacrilege. Let’s hope that there is really no such thing as zombies, for if there are, and one gets me, I’ll be in a doozy of a pickle then.
However, since I’m nothing if not dedicated to my work as a person who blogs about stuff so people will pay attention to her, I did dip my pinkie finger in the milk gravy and have a small taste. It was salty and made me shudder. I thought perhaps I ought to give it a poke but I couldn’t make my fingers do it, so I dumped the whole thing in the garbage disposal and let the water run a good long time.
I am also wondering why the milk gravy. So, I wrote Armour (I couldn’t find Rose’s website):
Hi! I was wondering why your pork brains, and indeed all the brands of pork brains I have ever seen, are packed in milk gravy. Is it for taste or does the milk act as a preservative?
Thanks!
Tracy
I will let you know if I get an answer. Until then, enjoy this video of some fools eating Rose pork brains in milk gravy.
The End! (I refuse to speculate as to what that dark matter on the bottom might be)
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This is a product that doesn’t get much attention in the United States food markets. Canned duck fat is actually a rather rare treat for people in France. For 67.5 oz of duck fat you can expect to pay around $60. We usually cut the fat off of our meat which makes this a very weird canned food.
Sweden - Canned Cheeseburger
This delicious cheeseburger originates from Sweden. It is strange simply because of the pieces used to make the cheeseburger. I would be worried about the quality of the bread, cheese, and meat after getting this shipped across seas. For the price of $6 you can get a cheeseburger in a can, or you can head over to McDonalds and get 6 of them for the same price.
New Zealand - Canned Tongue
New Zealand lamb tongues are definitely something that is not seen in many American grocery stores. However in New Zealand this is a great delicacy that is a very common item at a dinner table. The prices range depending on the brand, expect to pay around $5 for this can of tongues.
Korea - Canned Silkworm Pupae
These silkworm pupae are very popular snacks in and around Korea. They are prepared simply by stewing and seasoning them. You can get these at just about any supermarket or gas station in Korea as they are to them as something like peanuts are to us. Silkworm pupae are generally a cheaper food, you can pick up a can like this for around $4.
Scandinavia - Canned Reindeer
This delicacy is actually very healthy for you compared to other red meats. Since reindeer are raised on a farm on diets of moss and lichen these animals have only a 2 percent fat content. Due to the time and costs in farming these animals you will have to dish out close to $30 for a can of this arctic delicacy.
Thailand - Canned Scorpion
Scorpions are a delicacy in most of Thailand. These are already cooked and they can be eaten whole without risk of poison from their venom. There are thousands of different species of scorpions and you can eat a good percentage of them. Expect to pay around $6 for a can of scorpions.
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Twitter, a Service of Few Words And Many Followers, Goes Silent - WSJ.com
By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO and EMILY STEEL
MC Hammer was in the middle of an interview early Thursday morning when he encountered the unimaginable: life without Twitter.
After 10 minutes of trying to check messages from his 1.2 million followers on the site Twitter.com, the 1980s rapper known for his trademark balloon pants realized that the social-networking service had gone down.
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"My baby wasn't acting right. Did I notice it was out? That would be the equivalent to asking, did you notice you woke up?" says Mr. Hammer, whose given name is Stanley Burrell. "My immediate thought was, 'There is no replacing this platform...I couldn't satisfy the need to communicate.'"
Across the globe, millions of other users found themselves suddenly robbed of the ability to broadcast their innermost thoughts. Twitter said a cyberattack took down the service for about two hours. Users couldn't even get the site's oft-seen "fail whale" -- a rendering of a cetacean lifted by tiny birds that indicates the site is overloaded.
A year ago, few beyond Silicon Valley had heard about the site, which lets users send 140-character messages called tweets to followers who sign up for updates, from the quotidian (what they are wearing) to the momentous (a birth). Thanks in part to celebrity endorsers like Ashton Kutcher, Twitter's popularity has exploded.
The service doesn't disclose how many users it has. But Twitter.com had more than 44.5 million world-wide visitors in June, according to comScore, compared with just 2.9 million in June 2008. Its skyrocketing user growth means that more people feel the pain of disruptions.
Thursday's outage foiled Ian Schafer, the CEO of Deep Focus interactive ad agency in New York. Mr. Schafer, who prides himself on live-tweeting conferences and events to his nearly 5,000 followers, was preparing to live-tweet from a bris, a Jewish circumcision rite, for two baby boys.
On the way to his car in the morning, Mr. Schafer kept trying to get on Twitter from his iPhone, but figured his Web access was down. When he arrived at the ceremony, he tried again. His tweet -- "I'm at a bris. Not mine" -- took 45 minutes to crawl through. The next missive -- "In case you were wondering, a bris of twin boys happens one at a time" -- took another hour.
So he gave up. He posted a few photos of the food on his Facebook page and called it a day.
Washington journalist Ana Marie Cox, who has posted roughly 6,500 tweets, was unable to tell her nearly 952,000 followers that she purchased a new pair of jeans because of Thursday's outage. Ms. Cox often shares her choice of attire with a tweet dubbed "pants status."
"Strangely, I've found that the world has continued to exist without me having shared that," says Ms. Cox, a national correspondent for Air America and a contributing editor at Playboy.
But she did get to leave a good impression with a lunch date. "This person probably thinks I'm very focused and polite," Ms. Cox says. Had Twitter been functioning, she says she would've been tweeting throughout the meal. "I would have come off like I usually do," Ms. Cox says, "which is obviously rude and insensitive."
In some ways, the Twitter crowd is a hardy crew. The site has had an array of minor outages for years. In fact, Thursday's outage wasn't the biggest: In 2007 and 2008 the site had outages of four hours or longer. To help tweeters muddle through the tough times, a cottage industry has sprung up. One site, Whentwitterisdown.com, blurts out pithy notes like "When Twitter is down move on to the next thing."
Justine Ezarik, a 25-year-old video blogger in Los Angeles, has developed sophisticated coping mechanisms for feeling connected to her more than 600,000 followers during outages.
She said she usually waits and sits at her computer pressing refresh until it comes back again and writes down Tweets in her black moleskin notebook to save for later, like "Just went to grocery store, saw a woman got hit by a grocery cart" for example. "It's rough but I make it through," she says. On Thursday, Ms. Ezarik slept in and was therefore blissfully unaware of being Tweet-deprived.
When he first heard Twitter wasn't working, Carson Daly, the host of a late-night show on NBC, thought, just for a second, that it may be the end of the service for good. And he was relieved. "Thank God it is all over now," he says. "It drives me crazy. It is nonstop. It is just the world's biggest office, and everybody 'replies all.' I don't want to be involved in these conversations, but I got sucked in."
Other Twitter addicts were grateful to have a few extra minutes tacked onto their day. "The truth of the matter is, I got back 10 minutes of my morning -- not to have to think of something interesting to twitter which is so damn hard at 5 a.m." says Richard Rosenblatt, CEO of Demand Media, a digital-media company.
Mr. Hammer, for one, doesn't wish to contemplate a Twitterless existence. "For me, it would be the equivalent of going outside to get on the freeways and find that the freeways are closed down," he says. "Twitter being down is the equivalent to no way to get to the airport."
—Julia Angwin and Elizabeth Holmes contributed to this article.Write to Jessica E. Vascellaro at jessica.vascellaro@wsj.com and Emily Steel at emily.steel@wsj.com
Twitter, a Service of Few Words And Many Followers, Goes Silent - WSJ.com