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[infowar.de] BS 25.03.03: Al-Jazeera site under hacking attack, host says
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Al-Jazeera site under hacking attack, host says
The English-language page went live Monday; Data packets, known as a
denial-of-service attacks, said to have struck hard
By Peter Svensson
The Associated Press
March 25, 2003, 12:34 PM EST
NEW YORK -- 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.
On the Net:
http://www.aljazeera.net
http://english.aljazeera.net
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