Twitter's servers were hit yesterday with another distributed denial-of-service attack, crashing the microblogging service, reports eWeek.
Around 3pm EDT, Twitter posted an update to its status blog, stating it was experiencing a site outage and was examining the nature of the attack. Later, Alex Payne, platform lead at Twitter, posted on a bulletin board that the Web site was undergoing another wave of attacks.
This follows an attack on 6 August that knocked out Twitter and affected numerous other sites, including Facebook, LiveJounal and YouTube.
Facebook revises terms of use
Facebook has proposed a new version of its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities document, which acts as a terms of service for its users, states cnet.
One of the larger changes is clearer language of Facebook's share to everyone feature, which is now an integral part of the social network's updated search engine.
The new wording makes it clear that anything users post with the "everyone" designation can be seen by the entire world, not just users on the service.
Mac Trojan discovered
TrendMicro is reporting on a newly-discovered fourth member of the OSX_JAHLAV malware family, says ZDNet.
The latest variant once again relies on social engineering, this time spreading under a QuickTime Player update (QuickTimeUpdate.dmg) with a DNS changer component enabling the malware authors to redirect and monitor the victim's traffic.
Not only are cyber criminals beginning to acknowledge the “under-served” Mac OS X segment, they're also already borrowing tricks from the Microsoft Windows playbook such as OS-independent tactics like fake codecs and bogus video players.
RealNetworks loses DVD copying case
A federal judge has ruled in favour of Hollywood and against RealNetworks, declaring the company's RealDVD program violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the terms of the DVD CSS licence, reports PCMag.
At issue was both RealDVD and Facet, a set-top box designed to allow consumers to rip DVDs to a hard drive.
RealNetworks did not immediately say it planned to appeal. "We are disappointed that a preliminary injunction has been placed on the sale of RealDVD," the company said in a statement. "We have just received the judge's detailed ruling and are reviewing it. After we have done so fully, we'll determine our course of action and will have more to say at that time."
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