Someone went to great lengths to target the Internet identity of one man: a 34-year-old blogger and economics professor in the Republic of Georgia named Cyxymu.

Attackers first unleashed a wave of spam email and then a distributed denial of service attack aimed at sending huge amounts of traffic to the professor’s Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites, causing many to buckle and some to break under the strain of the traffic.

The motive is still a bit unclear,  seemingly something to do with a Georgia / Russia territorial dispute?   Anyway, I’ve been on the receiving end of a DDOS once and they’re not very easy to defend against.

Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter – NYTimes.com.