Information posted through the service is distributed not only through Twitter but also through a variety of financial news sites, including Yahoo finance and Reuters.com, among others.

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Botnets can send spam and flood Web sites with countless requests for information, a cyber attack also known as distributed denial of service.

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On Monday evening, Tehran time, hackers began using "distributed denial of service" attacks to flood Iranian government Web sites with requests for information that took the sites offline.

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