[infowar.de] intern.de/Washington Post: Al-Jazeera Site Experiences Hack Attack

[Joerg-Olaf Schaefers <listen -! - fx3 - de>]

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mmh, mmh ..

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Kurz notiert (2) 26.03.03                               26.03.2003

Dass der Al Jazeera WWW-Auftritt aufgrund der vielen Besucher in die
Knie gegangen ist, kann inzwischen ausgeschlossen werden. Sowohl der
arabische als auch der englische Auftritt des Nachrichtendienstes sind
nicht mehr zu erreichen, die Name Server sind tot. Man kann vermuten,
dass tatsächlich eine DoS-Attacke gegen dieses Informationsangebot
gefahren wurde. Vermutlich schon seit gestern, denn die
DNS-Informationen (DNS-Caches) sollen schon seit 24-Stunden langsam
verschwinden.
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Ausfuehrlicher, aber vom Infogehalt ebenso ueberholt:
http://www.intern.de/news/4149.html und



--snip-- http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25491-2003Mar25

Al-Jazeera Site Experiences Hack Attack

By PETER SVENSSON
The Associated Press
Tuesday, March 25, 2003; 12:30 PM

Hackers attacked the Web site of Arab satellite television network
Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the
site's host said.

The newly launched English-language page, which went live Monday, was
hardest hit in a bombardment of data packets known as a
denial-of-service attack.

Ayman Arrashid, Internet system administrator at the Horizons Media
and Information Services, the site's Web host, said the attack began
Tuesday morning local time.

The Web host is based in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. The servers
that host the Al-Jazeera site are in France and the United States.
Only the U.S. servers were under attack, said Arrashid, so the
attackers were likely in the United States.

He said technicians were working to thwart the attack, but could not
estimate when the site would be fully available again.

Al-Jazeera, also based in Qatar, is an unusually independent and
powerful voice in the Arab world whose broadcasts of U.S. prisoners
and war dead has angered many Americans. The English site carries at
least one picture of a dead U.S. soldier.

Representatives of the broadcaster could not immediately be reached
for comment.

In denial-of-service attacks, hackers normally send a deluge of false
requests to Web servers, overloading them and making them unavailable
to surfers.

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On the Net:

http://www.aljazeera.net

http://english.aljazeera.net


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MfG
 Olaf

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