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2003-03-27 Arabia

Al-Jazeera Sites Hit With Denial-of-Service Attacks

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Posted by HitEmHard 2003-03-27 08:23 am|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 snicker-snicker

Posted by raptor 2003-03-27 05:45:26|| 2003-03-27 05:45:26|| Front Page Top

#2 All your web site are belong to us

Mwahhhahahha

Posted by Frank G 2003-03-27 08:36:11|| 2003-03-27 08:36:11|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope we left a couple of cyber worms and viruses behind. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.

Posted by Doug De Bono 2003-03-27 10:39:10|| [www.douglasdebono.com] 2003-03-27 10:39:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Access denied.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-03-27 11:08:39|| 2003-03-27 11:08:39|| Front Page Top

#5 How can we get IndyMedia added to the target list?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-27 12:34:12|| 2003-03-27 12:34:12|| Front Page Top

#6 More on this from Reuters...

"... Users who tried to log onto the site before noon EST found a message that read "Hacked by Patriot, Freedom Cyber Force Militia" beneath a logo containing the U.S. flag. Visitors later found a message saying "This page has been taken over by Saimoon Bhuiyan" and advising that the page was under construction.
Al-Jazeera information technology manager Salah Al Seddiqui said someone had hijacked the domain name and redirected it to another server computer. "Our Web site is working but nobody can see it," Al Seddiqui said.
The al-Jazeera Web site has faced near-constant cyber attacks since an English-language version devoted exclusively to the war in Iraq was launched on Monday. Hackers have blitzed the site with meaningless data in an effort to squeeze out legitimate traffic and render the site inaccessible, a technique known as a "denial of service" attack.
That attack eased at around 3 a.m. London time on Thursday, Al Seddiqui said, but the domain name was hijacked shortly after and pointed to a free hosting service run by a Washington State domain-name seller.
Managers at Vancouver, Washington-based Dotster Inc. took down the page after they noticed an abnormal spike in traffic, Dotster Vice President George Decarlo said.
The domain name was pointed back to the original site, Decarlo said, but it might take several days for the Internet traffic system to register the change.
Al-Jazeera had registered its domain name with Network Solutions Inc. NSOL.O Network Solutions did not return repeated calls for comment.
Al-Jazeera also has had to search for a new home for the site after U.S.-based DataPipe said it would not be able to host it after the end of the month. Al Seddiqui said the company had moved its servers to a data center in France. ..."

Posted by Tadderly 2003-03-27 15:40:29|| 2003-03-27 15:40:29|| Front Page Top

#7 HTTP://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2461679

Sorry - here's the link

Posted by Tadderly 2003-03-27 15:45:20|| 2003-03-27 15:45:20|| Front Page Top

#8 While I'm against this sort of thing on general principle, it's not like I have any sympathy either.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-03-27 16:29:52|| 2003-03-27 16:29:52|| Front Page Top

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