Denial of Service Attacks Being Investigated by Google, Twitter, Facebook

Denial of Service Attacks Being Investigated by Google, Twitter, Facebook
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Now, a source close to the situation tells us that Twitter, Facebook, and Google – all rivals in the realm of social networking – are working together to determine the root of what has been exposed as a deliberate and simultaneous attempt to take down some of the web’s most popular social media sites.

Although we haven’t heard reports of Google sites being targeted in today’s attacks, as the Web’s biggest distributor of traffic, it would make sense for them to lend a hand in investigating the issue. As of yet, there’s no indication of who might be behind the attacks, though it certainly seems like all those impacted will do their best to try and figure it out.

For more on today's events, check out our earlier coverage:

Twitter Outage Explained: What’s a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)?

Facebook Problems Also the Result of DDoS Attack

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