Web Security Tips

The internet has again suffered a hiccup when the untimely death of “The King of Pop”, sent millions to file query’s on the web’s most trusted source for quick searches, Google News. The problem, the system treated the mass query as a DoS attack and barred itself shut, denying the hungry for news of their much loved singer who was suddenly taken from this earth. Google admits the hiccup left people without a properly functioning news service for about an hour while their people tried to address the issue which was indeed legitimate and was supposedly not to be any cause for alarm.
Recent problems with DoS attacks may have resulted in settings for their firewalls that were a tad bit too sensitive, too sensitive to predict and deal with such a sudden influx of queries it saw as a malware attack. The news service was quickly restored and people got their news that was less than an hour late in what may be the very first celebrity death that has been Twittered, blogged and just about anything on new media putting out the same result, Michael Jackson, dead at 50. These events show the utter unpredictability of the internet that still fails due to human nature. The situation was legitimate, it may have caught the Google people to off-guard who quickly ran out of time to re-set their security system to accept the huge demand but they said the system was designed and well capable of dealing with that very situation. As to why it clogged up, they are trying to find that out, an incident that left millions out of news of their troubled yet loved singer. may he Rest in Peace.