Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-29 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:51:30PM -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote, quoting Thomas Shaddack: Get the files - images, webpages, whatever you have, package them into suitably-sized files (if the size is too big, split the files to Basic and [...] Yeah, Cool, etc. But, who cares? Right. P2P

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
AJ are being hammered at the moment - I'm getting timeouts to them the picture I'm trying to look at is loading at 91 bits a second Either they are very popular or else the DoSsers are onto them big-time.

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jamie Lawrence wrote: Any other images? any Photoshop-pro can handle that. So... what are you showing me and mine? Even no need for photoshoppery. These deeply embedded reporters have been producing fake fights (and badly faked at that so you could see it for yourself), as

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
Harmon Seaver wrote: Hmm, weird -- I just got 64.106.174.80 on a lookup for aljazeera.net, and the same for english.aljazeera.net, but now I'm getting nothing for both. So trying from another server in AL, I get the same IP and can also actually lynx to the site (which I couldn't do from

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Mike Rosing
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service in the Land of Freedom. aljazeera.net, www.aljazeera.net, and english.aljazeera.net all give me 213.30.180.219 All of

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
Nslookup www.aljazeera.net now fails. As does ping 213.30.180.219 Looks like they got them again Mike Rosing wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:51 AM 3/28/2003 -0800, Mike Rosing wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: It looks like they were blocked in the USA (or else suffered reallly badly from hacking) and have maybe re-established the service in the Land of Freedom. aljazeera.net, www.aljazeera.net, and

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-28 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Nslookup www.aljazeera.net now fails. As does ping 213.30.180.219 Looks like they got them again Be aware of one gotcha: in case of flood attack, ISPs often filter ICMP and UDP (ports 1023) packets. So ping and traceroute won't work to the last hop there. More reliable is a telnet attempt to

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-27 Thread Thomas Shaddack
I don't think it matters what we do, check this out: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/26/HNjazeera_1.html They can down one server pretty easily. They can't down a hundred of servers so swiftly. Besides, if the problem is in DNS, we can employ the hosts file and set up the DNS record

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-27 Thread Mike Rosing
I don't think it matters what we do, check this out: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/26/HNjazeera_1.html This really is infowar, and I suspect the US government is the hacker. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: It's definitly jammed in

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-27 Thread Steve Schear
At 07:53 PM 3/27/2003 +0100, you wrote: It's definitly jammed in the US. I get 503 - out of resources error. Maybe you guys can set up a mirror that isn't jammed and the US can see it that way (at least until the feds catch wind of it). At this moment, http://english.aljazeera.net/ shows some

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-27 Thread Sunder
Here's what's up: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29984.html Al Jazeera's web site - DDoSed or unplugged? By John Lettice Posted: 27/03/2003 at 16:17 GMT The launch of Arab satellite TV network Al Jazeera's new Web site on Monday drew immediate hack attacks, but this has been swiftly

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-27 Thread Thomas Shaddack
This really is infowar, and I suspect the US government is the hacker. I entirely forgot about another, already-existing, infrastructure: P2P networks! Freenet, Gnutella, Kazaa, WinMX, lots and lots of napsteroids. Get the files - images, webpages, whatever you have, package them into

Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-27 Thread Harmon Seaver
Hmm, weird -- I just got 64.106.174.80 on a lookup for aljazeera.net, and the same for english.aljazeera.net, but now I'm getting nothing for both. So trying from another server in AL, I get the same IP and can also actually lynx to the site (which I couldn't do from here) but only get a 404

Re: CDR: Re: aljazeera.net hacked again?

2003-03-27 Thread Jamie Lawrence
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: This really is infowar, and I suspect the US government is the hacker. I entirely forgot about another, already-existing, infrastructure: P2P networks! Freenet, Gnutella, Kazaa, WinMX, lots and lots of napsteroids. Get the files - images,