Attackers 1, MySpace 0
Over the past few days I’ve noticed a lot of “botted” friend requests. These are requests that are not made by a person, but by a program. Apparently, the creator of this bot was gearing up for today. Around 10:18AM EST, I started getting these friend requests.
But this time, they were coming in one every 40 seconds. I thought, wow… imagine, with the amount of profiles on MySpace.com, all the friend requests happening right now! I proceded to the website to delete the requests. Itry to log in, and there’s a timeout. I try again and it times out again. So, I wait a minute and try again. This time, I’m presented with a generic “Sevice is to busy” message. This tells me that MySpace is being flooded with friend requests, logins, and outbound emails! After 10 minutes, the crew at MySpace finaly disabled logins, and put up this prety message for it’s users.
I was praying for catastrophic hardware failure and an electromagnetic bomb to wipe out the backups. But, as usual my prayers went unanswered, and they will be back in a while. Boohoo.