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Al-Jazeera Sites Hit With Denial-of-Service Attacks
The Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera suffered a second day of sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against its English- and Arabic-language Web sites on Wednesday. The attacks have pushed the network, which is based in Doha, Qatar, off the Web for the time being and forced Al-Jazeera to increase bandwidth for the sites and step up security in a desperate effort to get back online. "All of our Web sites are down. The U.S. [Web site] is out of order and the Europe [Web site] is under attack. We come up for five or ten minutes and then the attacks bring us down again," said Salah AlSeddiqi, IT manager at Al-Jazeera. Whether it was hackers from the government or just good old patriotic Americans, this is right on. Now how's about the feds causing some mischief with their damn TV signal? Posted by: HitEmHard 2003-03-27 |
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