Web Site Hacking for Dummies

Why Twitter and other Web sites are increasingly vulnerable to hacker attacks, in this video edition of The Business Week

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Microblogging service Twitter became a victim of a denial-of-service attack on Aug. 6 that took down its Web site. Hackers were actually targeting a single user. BusinessWeek writer Joel Schectman discusses how the attack happened and how almost anyone can do the same thing with just a few hundred bucks.

Plus: Why Facebook bought FriendFeed, what a guilty plea from Bernard Madoff's CFO means, and our look at the economic week ahead.

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