Facebook Hacked! Victim of DDOS Attack

I thing all of you are aware of DDOS attack mainly and considered as one of the commonly used method for website hacking etc. In DDOS attack, The attacker launches the attack using several machines. In this case, an attacker breaks into several machines, or coordinates with several zombies to launch an attack against a target or network at the same time. This makes it difficult to detect because attacks originate from several IP addresses. If a single IP address is attacking a company, it can block that address at its firewall. If it is 30000 this is extremely difficult.

What happens to Facebook in Europe recently?

Recently at 18:00 AM 8/03/2012 , Facebook falls under this attack in most of the countries like Europe, France, Germany, Russia and South Africa where its servers becomes irresponsible and service gets temporarily down for some time (approximate for 2 hours). Third parties suggested a problem with Facebook's European DNS servers may have been at the root. These machines connect the address "Facebook.com" with the actual content of the website, and during the outage attempts to contact to them as normal received no response.

DownRightNow, which monitors major web services, showed Facebook having suffered ongoing intermittent service until mid-afternoon.CERT. Be, a Belgian government agency, claimed that the outage was due to a DDOS hacker attack, but this has not been confirmed.

Latest Facebook Security Update-

The issue has been now fully resolved and everyone should have access to Facebook. We apologies for any inconvenience occurred.

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