Chinese Human Rights Defenders DDoSed - March 2010

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DATE:
2010-03

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
China, USA

AFFECTED SITES:
crd-net.org

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
"Crippled the site for more than five days" (1)

SOURCE COUNTRY:
China

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
"Most serious attack the site has faced in its history."

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Chinese Human Rights Defenders attacked for the second time this year. Site is managed from activists in China, hosted in the US (GoDaddy). Attack occurred shortly after GoDaddy announced it would cease registering .cn domain names and Google announced it would stop filtering Chinese searches.

URLS:
1. https://chrdnet.org/2010/03/30/china-human-rights-briefing-march-23-30-2010/
2. https://chrdnet.org/2010/03/30/following-major-announcements-by-google-and-go-daddy-regarding-china-services-hackers-strike-chinese-human-rights-defenders-website/

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