{"id":483,"date":"2009-08-06T08:38:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2009-08-06T08:39:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T15:39:50","slug":"twitter-down-reports-under-dos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/twitter-down-reports-under-dos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Down. Reports Under DoS Attack."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em><strong>What exactly is a DoS Attack?<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>In simple terms, a DoS or Denial of Service attack is when a system or group of systems, create traffic to a web site or network service, that causes an overload of the equipment and forces the web site or network service to drop or ignore real requests.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>What we know at this time.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At the time or my writing, Twitter had gotten some control over this problem, and can now display web pages again, but are not accepting posts.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook appears to have slowed down as well, but this is being attributed to the increased traffic to Facebook due to the Twitter problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Stu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What exactly is a DoS Attack? In simple terms, a DoS or Denial of Service attack is when a system or group of systems, create traffic to a web site or network service, that causes an overload of the equipment and forces the web site or network service to drop or ignore real requests. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30,12],"tags":[90,57,91,89,88],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-networking","category-security","tag-dos","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-slow","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartsheldon.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}