Security analysts scramble to find motive behind DDoS attacks that brought down Twitter for several hours. Several agree that Twitter’s infrastructure needs immediate strengthening. Facebook executive says Facebook believed attacks were directed against one individual. One analyst says vigilante wanted to call attention to the danger of botnets. DDoS attack was similar to U.S. government and South Korean attacks in early July, analyst says. Twitter has to “re-examine” its infrastructure, expert says, “It wouldn’t take much more than $10 million””]
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