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DDoS attacks are surprisingly low tech. Using a network of computers (dubbed zombies) controlled by a single master machine, the hacker tries to overwhelm a website's servers. It's a brute-force approach - the network of hacker-controlled computers floods the server with requests for data until the server...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Did Hackers Cripple Twitter? | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

This method of causing computer chaos has been used at least as far back as 1998, when the first software tools were developed to assist in DDoS assaults. But the attacks didn't garner much attention until 2000, when Amazon, eBay, Yahoo! and CNN were brought down in a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Did Hackers Cripple Twitter? | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

Not everyone will be recommended for the H1N1 vaccine. The target group includes pregnant women, caretakers of infants, adults with chronic illnesses like diabetes and asthma and every child, teen and young adult between the ages of 6 months and 24 years. H1N1 is particularly tough on these populations. Pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Fight Against a Flu Pandemic | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

Charles Rangel was pacing outside a congressional meeting room where members of the House of Representatives were haggling over the health-care bill. Inside, a boiler-room atmosphere had developed: no one was allowed to leave for anything other than a bathroom break or a vote until committee members came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Rangel: The Lion of Harlem | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

For his part, Najib had been doing okay until Saturday's mayhem, according to political analysts. After inheriting a ruling coalition in disarray and a government lacking firm direction amidst an economic slowdown, he had pulled the government together and give "hope of a fair, just and united society under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Honeymoon is Over for Malaysia's New PM | 8/6/2009 | See Source »

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