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2003-10-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Seafarious 2003-10-21 12:55:01 PM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Early this a.m., I read that they had a DDOS attack last night. Now this, third time. Aaron at Internet Haganah seems pretty emphatic that it's al Qaeda, from Malaysia predominently.

Most DDOS attacks use "innocent" computers that they've managed to infect with a worm. Everyone should check their virus software, and spyware protection.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-10-21 1:33:13 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-10-21 1:33:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Last night, some of the blog-posters (especially at LGF) took exception to Al Guardian's continuing effort to incite the assassination of President Bush. A DDOS attack in response would be consistent behaviour for AG's crypto-trotskyite terror-profiteer audience.
This kind of incitement, btw, has been a subtle trend lately in fifth column media, except at Guardian, where it has been very blatant.
See Al Reuters' story demonizing the Royal Australian Air Force's fairly routine precautions for Bush's visit and subtly equating these precautions with some kind of extra-legal oppression.

Posted by Charlotte Ravens Bloody Nose 2003-10-21 1:35:35 PM|| 2003-10-21 1:35:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 hee hee...Glenn just put up a counter at instabackup, saw that he's getting hits, and is blogging away...

Posted by seafarious 2003-10-21 1:47:43 PM|| 2003-10-21 1:47:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 DDOS? Sorry, I'm not familiar with that acronym.

Posted by Atrus 2003-10-21 1:59:30 PM|| 2003-10-21 1:59:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Distributed Denial of Service...

Check this site out - look around - he explains it quite nicely. Good old Steve Gibson, one of the best coders ever!
http://www.grc.com

And do the Shields test while you're there!

Posted by .com 2003-10-21 2:02:52 PM|| 2003-10-21 2:02:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 'bout half of Hosting Matters' blog are back. LGF is still down though.

Posted by BigFire 2003-10-21 2:05:45 PM|| 2003-10-21 2:05:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 They're bringing things back in server by server. They are having to make changes to IP addresses on some of the servers. The ones they didn't have to change, needless to say, come back up first.

Posted by Kathy K 2003-10-21 2:12:17 PM|| [site-essential.com/] 2003-10-21 2:12:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Explanation & status updates can be found here... (may not be permanent link).

Posted by Old Grouch 2003-10-21 4:01:29 PM|| 2003-10-21 4:01:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Someone needs to clue al-Guardian in regarding the prospects of "President Cheney".

Posted by Dishman 2003-10-21 4:18:29 PM|| 2003-10-21 4:18:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 When this happened a few days ago, someone commenting on an HM blog said that this was why he used some other service. Stephanie (of HM) got slightly snippy about it.

But the guy was right---no matter how good HM is, if many of the most popular blogs are on HM, and something happens to it, blog readers are SOL. That's true if it's HM's screw-up, a DOS attack, or an act of God.

The moral: Do not put all your bleggs in one basket.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2003-10-21 4:39:21 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2003-10-21 4:39:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 If it was in my power, I would cut off all communications out of Malaysia. Where are the government authorities, who should be dealing with this attack on businesses?

Posted by Anonon 2003-10-21 4:41:50 PM|| 2003-10-21 4:41:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Those "running the world" Jews haven't told them what to do yet...

Posted by tu3031 2003-10-21 4:46:48 PM|| 2003-10-21 4:46:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 "Last night, some of the blog-posters (especially at LGF) took exception to Al Guardian's continuing effort to incite the assassination of President Bush."
It's worth noting that these exceptions took the form of some remarks about home-made cruise missiles (as discussed here at R-burg a few days ago) and the GPS coordinates of the Guardian offices.
Naturally, moonbats and trustafarian mumia-cong would be upset at this. How dare anyone but designated pop-culture authorities and other "progressives" endorse extra-legal violence in democratic countries?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2003-10-21 5:04:08 PM|| 2003-10-21 5:04:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 LGF's back!

Posted by Atrus 2003-10-21 5:08:56 PM|| 2003-10-21 5:08:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Muslim cyber-terrorist identifies himself, and his server.

http://www.as-sahwah.com/discus/messages/6/6891.html?1066039992

ObL Crew terrorists back on at a New Zealand run coconut island website.

http://www.oblcrew.tk/

Posted by Anonon 2003-10-21 5:14:42 PM|| 2003-10-21 5:14:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Did they just strike again!?

Posted by Atrus 2003-10-21 5:32:45 PM|| 2003-10-21 5:32:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 I think so. I just tried PowerLine (powerlineblog.com) and couldn't get in. Their with the same hosts.

If you stop by grc.com, also try the leak-test. It is a test that something on your machine is accssing the net without your knowing it.

Posted by eLarson 2003-10-21 5:37:07 PM|| 2003-10-21 5:37:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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