Twitter, Facebook DDoS Attack Targeted One User

An anonymous reader writes "A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to yesterday's site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on, according to a Facebook executive. The blogger, who uses the account name 'Cyxymu' (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia), had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNet News." Here are user Cyxymu's LiveJournal Google cache and LiveJournal account (unreachable at this writing). Larry Magid writes on CNet that this individual blogs about independence of a breakaway region of Georgia. Macworld has some speculation in other directions on the motivations behind the DDoS attack.
Update: 08/07 19:52 GMT by KD : Cyber attacks on Cyxymu are not new. For over a year Evgeny Morozov has been calling attention to him as the first digital refugee.

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[Anonymous Coward]

ladies, get your pussies ready!

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[Anonymous Coward]

yo mama ain't no lady and her pussy is always ready

You sure it wasn't targeting me?

[edmicman]

I mean, *I* have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and I think an old Blogger one somewhere. I'm sure Livejournal was just a coincidence. Internet narcissism much? Half the Internet goes down, and it's because of a targeted attack because one person posts/has accounts on those services? Like mentioned above, it'd be easier just to send some thugs to rough him up.

Re:Asymmetrical warfare

[eugene2k]

And someone born not as an american citizen could still become the president of the United States, if they hide their _real_ birth certificate.

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