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LiveJournal Targeted in Massive DDoS Attack

LiveJournal has experienced downtime during the past couple of days because of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that overwhelmed the company's servers.The outages began on Tuesday, but the company didn't release a statement until yesterday when it confirmed it was the target of an attack."We c...

28 July 2011
05:34 GMT

Russian President Condemns DDoS Attacks Against LiveJournal

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has condemned the recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against blog publishing platform LiveJournal, calling them outrageous and illegal.President Medvedev maintains a personal blog on LiveJournal since April 2009, a few months after the entire site's develo...

8 April 2011
10:14 GMT

DDoS Targeting Russian Anti-Corruption Activist Leads to LiveJournal Downtime

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks directed at the blog of prominent Russian political activist Alexey Navalny resulted in repeated downtime for the entire LiveJournal platform.According to security experts from Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab who have been keeping an eye on one of the botnets used, ...

6 April 2011
10:46 GMT

Flash-Based Social Networking Worm Rampages on LiveJournal

Users of the LiveJournal blogging platform were the target of a malicious attack on Tuesday, when a social networking worm that spread by simply viewing an infected post was released on the website. The malware stole email addresses and made private blog entries accessible to everyone. The LiveJournal staff has post...

24 September 2009
09:42 GMT

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LiveJournal Hit to Silence Blogger

Various social networking, blogging, and other popular services such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, LiveJournal, YouTube or Google Sites were the target of a massive DDoS attack yesterday, which impacted them in different ways. The intended target appears to have been a pro-Georgian blogger with accounts on all of th...

7 August 2009
04:32 GMT

ShoZu Expands Uploading Service to Vox and LiveJournal

ShoZu has recently announced the extension of its Share-It mobile video and photo uploading service to Vox and LiveJournal, popular blogging services that are a part of the Six Apart Blogging Family. Now supporting over two dozen online communities and other web destinations, Shozu offers its consumers more options t...

4 May 2007
03:07 GMT


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