Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal have all been experiencing outages (Twitter) and slow-downs (Facebook and LiveJournal) all morning according to the New York Times (and, well, our own experience along with countless other sites and users around the internet). From the sound of things, it appears to have been a DDoS attack (those seem to be going around lately), but it only serves to highlight the risks of keeping your data in the cloud we’ve mentioned in the past. Photo by edwheeler. [NYT]