DATE:
2010-03
AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
USA
AFFECTED SITES:
paltalk.com
EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
n/a
SOURCE COUNTRY:
Egypt
ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a
TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS
ATTACK SPECIFICS:
48 hour attack
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
After a drive-by shooting in January, leaving many Coptic Christians in Egypt wounded or dead, that group used Paltalk as one of the means to expose their maltreatment by Egyptians and the Egyptian government. This DDoS would seem to be in order to shut down this mode of communication.
URLS:
1. http://news.uk.msn.com/forum/thread.aspx?threadid=1695835&thread=00000071-0000-0000-5be0-190000000000&board=00000071-0328-0000-0000-000000000000
2. http://www.sloppynoodle.com/wp/journalist-claims-that-egyptian-government-is-attempting-to-%E2%80%98silence%E2%80%99-the-%E2%80%99coptic-diaspora%E2%80%99-following-drive-by-shooting-on-january-6/
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