Hello, Does anyone know the reason for the vulnerability in Twitter when a lot of DOS attacks were made? Were they due to the design of the application or the server where they hosted got attacked? Thanks, Pratik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:40 AM, tispratik wrote:> Hello, > > Does anyone know the reason for the vulnerability in Twitter when a > lot of DOS attacks were made? > Were they due to the design of the application or the server where > they hosted got attacked?It was a widely publicized distributed denial of service attack. Thousands of zombie machines were used to connect to Twitter, eventually using up all available resources. No application design decision could have defended against this, only more machines. -j --- John Adams (@netik) Retina Communications jna-v/oBC7Wj0TusTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org http://www.retina.net/tech this email is: [ ] bloggable [ x ] ask first [ ] confidential -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
Thanks for the Information John. How do the zombies register for twitter? Can we not prevent them using captchas? Can the zombies get passwords of existing users? Can anyone attack Twitter by logging into one''s own account? -Pratik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.