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| Twitter Downed By Cyber-Thugs? Written by Daniel Thursday, 06 August 2009 Twitter has been down most of this morning all over the world because, it says, of a denial of service (DOS) attack. Is it payback for Twitter's attempts at fighting malware? Posted by Michael Hickins, Aug 6, 2009 11:38 AM Indeed, given the magnitude of the attack, it wouldn't be at all surprising if this turned out to be payback by cyber-thugs for Twitter's recent moves to thwart malware and links to malicious sites. [Front page...]
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| I didn't know what Stephen Fry was up to all morning. It was beyond miserable!
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