DoSWatch = Aggregated stories about the use of denial of service attacks and hacking as a form of censorship.

If you hear about such an event, or if you've been censored in this way, please email or use @DoSWatch on Twitter.

This is not a news site. Our goal is to collect and quickly summarize, not research and fact-check. Many details of these reports rely on translated pages, speculation, and/or anecdote, so should be treated as such. Link quality will vary.

*click for email

Friday, June 11, 2010

Jewish Chronicle DDoSed - June 2010

DATE:
2010-06

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
UK, Israel

AFFECTED SITES:
thejc.com

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Downtime

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
n/a

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
"Massive" attack

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Jewish Chronicle DDoSed. "Following the Gaza flotilla incident on Monday, a column in the Spectator claimed that the website of the paper was down following "a massive denial-of-service, apparently to shut down its balanced coverage of the Ashdod flotilla incident" (1).

URLS:
1. http://www.securecomputing.net.au/News/213826,jewish-chronicle-hit-by-ddos-attack-following-gaza-flotilla-incident.aspx
2. http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6044639/peace-convoy-this-was-an-islamist-terror-ambush.thtml

Posted by  DoSWatch at 10:27 PM
Labels: , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Archive