Wonderful World of DDoS

[mhwest]

As some of you may know, LiveJournal has been under attack this morning from 6:00am PST until ??? We have taken steps to mitigate the DDoS but some users may still experience site connectivity problems. We are aware of these issues, and would like to take this moment to explain we are doing everything we can to keep the site up and running 100%,

Comments

[valmorbia]

oh no wonder i couldnt get on. is it safe to be on lj? might the computer get a virus?

[metawidget]

It's safe, just slow - the attack won't blow back on you or anything.

[matt1993]

And I think it caused the Writer's Block to be missing.

[irish_injun]

They blocked the writer's block? ROFL!!!!

[wherrymotor]

Life in sys admin is tough enough anyway without DDoS. Hats off to all y'all!

[darksumomo]

LJ, Twitter, and Facebook are all having issues.

San Francisco Chronicle blogs: Twitter is victim of denial-of-service attack

Read-Write-Web: Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal Down at the Same Time! (Update)

Someone doesn't like social networking today.

[dragonsong12]

Journalfen was down yesterday too. Dude's on a spree!

(To what end? No one can know)

[matt1993]

Facebook works fine for me...

[ritabites]

no one went after myspace? lol

[oceandezignz]

Okay so who's buggering with mah internets. Twitter/LJ/FB wtf... is this someone getting back at ATT for blocking 4chan?! :o

[triadruid]

Does AT&T own any of those sites? 4chan is usually at least smart enough to go after the right target, even if their definition of 'target' is a little odd...

[oceandezignz]

Nope. But you could have anyone out there being stupid enough to do in the name of anything.

I know a few people who get really mad if they can't have their daily intake of cat-macros so who knows :o

[paperteacup]

4chan =/= cat macros. At least, not since locats got to be hellishly popular.

[tracys_dream]

Thanks for the update.