The plot thickens around yesterdays Twitter DOS attack. As some had suspected, other sites, including Facebook and Livejournal, were also targeted too. A post on the Mashable blog also cites Google as being involved in the investigations. Google are a past master at fending off large scale DDOS attacks, and work well with the Tier one [...]

Web darling and social media service-de-jour Twitter was wiped off of the net temporarily today. Probably not in a response to Twitter CEO Evan Williams‘ appearance on BBC’s newsnight last night, where he pronounced London as Twitter’s top city in his first interview on UK Television.
The micro-blogging site was brought to a stand-still by  a [...]

The security vendor McAfee has been embroiled in defusing a security gaff of its own making this week. According to sources and Flickr images, they managed to send out an Excel spreadsheet containing the contact details of 1,408 summit registrants. Opps, as they say.
In a follow up email McAffee stated:
“You may have been inadvertently sent information [...]

Pointed post on TeleGeography, looking at capacity on the transatlantic run - the route that keeps the Internet alive for the UK.
According to new projections from TeleGeography’s Global Bandwidth Forecast Service, bandwidth requirements will grow 33 percent (CAGR) between 2008 and 2015. At this rate, trans-Atlantic capacity will be exhausted by 2014, and cables providing diversity [...]

No, not strangling them, just reducing their download speeds. Today’s article on the BBC site:
BT Broadband cuts the speed users can watch video services like the BBC iPlayer and YouTube at peak times.  A customer who has signed on to an up to 8 megabit per second (MBPS) package can have speed cut to below 1Mbps. A [...]