CNN.com Hit By An Attack Believed To Be From China

[FVZA_Colonel]

Source: InfoWorld

CNN site hit by China attack
By Robert McMillan

San Francisco - After being called off Friday, the on-again, off-again cyberattack against CNN's Web site again picked up steam early this week, according to network security analysts.

At its peak, the attack has sucked up 100MBps in bandwidth, enough to slow the news Web site for some visitors. "That's a decent-sized attack," said Jose Nazario, a senior security engineer with Arbor Networks. "Globally speaking, it's probably garden-variety."

Organizers had originally called for the attack to be launched on April 19. But they soon called off their efforts with one organizer, CN-Magistrate, saying that "too many people are aware of it, and the situation is chaotic."

CN-Magistrate soon disbanded his Web site devoted to these attacks and dropped out of public view.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080423/tc_infoworld/99053_2

[ananda]

1. y a w n

Ho-hum.

[Longtooth]

2. Could very well be.

[fed-up]

3. or is it black ops practicing for when the sh*t really hits the fan w/food gas housing elections? nt

[razors edge]

4. Damned nerd goons. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

5. No Propaganda Outlet is safe !

OMG

[Kaleko]

6. Fits the bigger picture that is coming into view.

A little bit more from the same article:

"Angered by Western coverage of unrest in Tibet by CNN, organizers had hoped to knock the Web site offline using tactics similar to those seen in recent attacks on Internet servers run by the Church of Scientology and the Baltic nation of Estonia. Hackers made easy-to-use Web attacking tools available for download on hackcnn.com and then encouraged as many computers as possible to join in on the attack."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080423/tc_infoworld/99053_2

[colonel odis]

7. probably a response to jack cafferty's attacks on china on the air.

and a taste of what will happen in the future to anyone who dares criticize -- or point out the failings of -- china.

[crim son]

8. Let's attack them preemptively!

Kewl.

[Robb]

9. I Hope, Sir, This has Nothing to Do with our Own

Magistrate. :rofl: