Mon, 31 Mar 2003 22:13:21 -0500 From: Paul Kneisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: News On the War: #3
Pentagon downed Web site, Al-Jazeera editor says Graeme SMith (GLobe & Mail) March 29, 2003 For journalists inside the Al-Jazeera newsroom in Doha, Qatar, it was obvious who attacked their Web site this week. The Arabic-language television network had just launched its English site and was publishing the first pictures of Iraq's prisoners of war on Tuesday when a barrage of junk messages crippled the site. The attacks continued all week. One enterprising hacker even used fake Al- Jazeera letterhead to fool an Internet company into letting him redirect visitors away from Al-Jazeera to other locations such as porn sites and a page that displayed an American flag with the message: "God bless our troops!"
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------------------------------------------------------------------------- Al-Jazeera hobbled by DDOS attack: news site targeted for second day Paul Roberts (InfoWorld) March 26, 2003 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. <http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/26/HNjazeera_1.html>
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Al-Jazeera Web site suffers hits Ian Fried and Patrick Gray (Tech Central / Malaysia) March 27, 2003 The Web sites of Al-Jazeera have been taken offline, in what has been confirmed by the Arab media organization as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the company?s Domain Name Servers (DNS). The Qatar-based agency, which operates an Arab-language site and launched an English-language Web site on Monday, provides a starkly different view on the war with Iraq than that offered by many Western media outlets. According to a report on ABC Online, the English site was hit almost immediately by what they have termed "hacker attacks" and technical glitches. The report quoted Al-Jazeera managing editor Joanne Tucker as saying "we've had a lot of obstacles thrown in our way". "I thought the launch of this site would be quite smooth and wouldn't make make too many waves but the reaction has been amazing - it has been almost surreal."
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