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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Internet Haganah, others - October 2003

DATE:
2003-10

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
USA

AFFECTED SITES:
internet-haganah.org was the apparent target, others affected included instapundit.com, command-post.org, buzzmachine.com, and littlegreenfootballs.com

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Hosting company offline for 15 hours.

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Al Qaeda sympathizers

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
Up to 150MB/sec.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Site "seeks to identify web sites with terrorist links and then lobbies hosting providers to shut down the suspect sites." (1) After many sites collected donations for the site (at least $3790), at least 15 mirror sites were launched.

URLS:
1. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/10/24/sustained_ddos_wobble_prominent_weblogs.html
2. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=8570#c0119

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