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  DDOS attackers continue hitting Twitter, Facebook, Google

  The distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks that knocked out Twitter for hours and affected other sites like Facebook, Google's Blogger and LiveJournal on Thursday continued all day Friday and may persist throughout the weekend.

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  Twitter still struggling to recover from DOS attack

  The DOS (denial-of-service) attack that crippled Twitter on Thursday is still affecting the micro-blogging service on Friday, the company said in a blog post.

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  App developers stung by Twitter's DOS woes

  Developers who built applications for Twitter and generate money from them have been hard-hit by the micro-blogging service's many hours of downtime in the past day, as hackers pummel Twitter with an ongoing denial-of-service attack.

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  Security researchers zero in on Twitter hackers

  Security experts are making progress in their efforts to identify the hackers responsible for the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that that crippled Twitter for several hours Thursday.

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  Facebook confirms DoS attack same day as Twitter

  Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day.

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  Twitter taken down by denial-of-service attack

  The Twitter micro-blogging and social networking service was hit with a denial-of-service attack Thursday morning that has rendered the site unavailable for users.

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  UK, not North Korea, source of DDOS attacks, researcher says

  The U.K. was the likely source of a series of attacks last week that took down popular Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea, according to an analysis performed by a Vietnamese computer security analyst.

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  Was North Korea behind the DDOS attack?

  The cyberattacks that took down prominent U.S. and South Korean Web sites in the last week have apparently ended but the search for those responsible is only just beginning. North Korea has emerged as a likely culprit, especially among politicians, b...

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  DNS attack downs Internet in parts of China

  An attack on the servers of a domain registrar in China caused an online video application to cripple Internet access in parts of the country late on Wednesday.