Re: Al-Jazeera Site Experiences Hack Attack
From: alan (alan@alan.alan)
Date: 03/26/03
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From: "alan" <alan@alan.alan> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:42:22 GMT
is it strange that I cannot find an IP address for
(http://www.aljazeera.net/) ?
is this normally the case in a denial of service attack?
or is there something more to this?
A
"biollante" <biollante@biollante.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25577-2003Mar25.html
>
> Al-Jazeera Site Experiences Hack Attack
>
> By Peter Svensson
> The Associated Press
> Tuesday, March 25, 2003; 4:52 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 and
posted
> images of the corpses of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, 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.
>
> Nabil Hegazi, assistant to the managing editor of the English Web site,
> denied that an attack was the reason the site was unavailable. He said it
> was difficult to access because traffic was almost four times more than
> expected.
>
> 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. Arrashid
said
> he could not determine the attack's origin, but only the U.S. servers were
> affected, leading him to suspect that the attackers were in the United
> States.
>
> Security consultant Steve Manzuik at Entrench Technologies Inc. in
Calgary,
> Alberta, said a study of Internet addresses related to Al-Jazeera's U.S.
> servers pointed to a technical problem other than an attack.
>
> "If anything, I think they have other issues," he said.
>
> Al-Jazeera's French servers were unavailable, however, in a way that did
not
> exclude the possibility they were under attack, Manzuik said.
>
> Arrashid said technicians were working to thwart the attack, but could not
> estimate when the site would be fully available again.
>
> In denial-of-service attacks, hackers normally send a deluge of false
> requests to Web servers, overloading them and making them unavailable to
> surfers.
>
> 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.
>
> Earlier, Al-Jazeera said two reporters had their credentials revoked by
the
> New York Stock Exchange because of the network's coverage of the war. The
> exchange said the decision was prompted by space constraints.
>
> Al-Jazeera's English site was unavailable Tuesday from four out of five
> locations in the United States, said Roopak Patel, a senior analyst at
> Keynote Systems Inc., a San Mateo, Calif., company that tracks Web
> performance.
>
> He said the Arabic site had starting Sunday experienced periods of very
poor
> availability - which may have been caused by hackers, Patel said.
>
> ---
> On the Net:
> http://www.aljazeera.net
> http://english.aljazeera.net
>
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>
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