A little while ago I wrote an article on my blog about Joomla. I have had a few off-line comments about the article and as they were not written here I have decided to treat them as private responses and not publish the author’s names and their comments. But there were some very valid suggestions made [...]
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Joomla update
Mar 21
Twitter and Facebook face the wrath…
Aug 7
Posted by Bruce Gruenbaum in Commentary, Social Media | No Comments
Like many others, I woke up yesterday morning to find Twitter down. While I was trying to check Twitter, my wife was trying to get at her Facebook page and was surprised at how slow it was. “The internet is slow!” she exclaimed. A few minutes later I caught the report on the fact that Twitter had experienced a denial of service attack. Based on today’s reports, it appears that the denial of service attack was a Russian attack on a Georgian citizen who had made politically charged comments about the Russo-Georgian conflict last year. Organizations around the world see social media as the future of customer growth and they are spending large sums of money on very expensive people to advance their social web marketing agendas, and therein lies the risk…
Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter, Web Security