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Friday, May 21, 2010

Mizzima News (Burmese) DDoSed - July 2008

DATE:
2008-07

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Burma, India

AFFECTED SITES:
mizzima.com

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Inaccessible for days

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Burmese government

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS, hack attempts

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
Site received more than 5GB of data in less than 15 minutes

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Independent Burmese media site. "SEAPA partner Mizzima News, a Burmese independent news agency based in New Delhi, India, reported that its website has been inaccessible since 27 July due to persistent and severe" DDoS. (1) Report "a lot of intrusion attempts from servers in China, Russia and Hungary." (1)

URLS:
1. http://citizenlab.org/2008/07/information-warfare-monitor-burmese-news-agencies-under-dos-attack/

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