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Friday, August 07, 2009

Were 15 fat Russians stuck in Twitter's revolving door?

Security expert Graham Cluley recently described a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack as being like “15 fat men trying to get through a revolving door at the same time”. I wonder, in the case of the attack aimed at Twitter this week, if those would be 15 fat Russian men?

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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.

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