TWITTER ATTACKS CAUSED BLOGGER CYXYMU

The attacks that outage Twitter and left millions collateral damage around the globe was traced several hours ago that it was an attacked intended to a lone blogger in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.

The attacks which started Thursday in Facebook, LiveJournal and several Web sites including Twitter that caused the site to crash out because of its denial of a service-attack commanded by hackers toward a single site to prevent legitimate traffic from getting through on a targeted blogger "Cyxymu", who bears a twitter id of twitter.com/cyxymu. Cyxymu is a Cyrillic spelling of Sukhumi, a city in the breakaway area of Abkhazia, Georgia.

Ray Dickenson, Chief Techonology Officer at Authentium, a computer security firm said, "A denial of service attack like this one is a very blunt instrument. It's as if a viewer who didn;t like one show on a television channel decided to "knock out the whole station." Or just like fishing with dynamite catching and killing all the other organisms including dolphins and sharks.

The source of the attacks was not known yet and who was behind it, but seems the dispute was related to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia.