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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Turkish Internet censors DDoSed - June 2010

DATE:
2010-06

AFFECTED COUNTRIES:
Turkey

AFFECTED SITES:
ubak.gov.tr, tk.gov.tr, tib.gov.tr

EFFECT OF ATTACKS:
Unavailable for a while

SOURCE COUNTRY:
n/a

ALLEGED ATTACKERS:
Turkish anti-censorship activists

TYPE OF ATTACK:
DDoS

ATTACK SPECIFICS:
n/a

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Ministry of Transportation, Information and Communication Technologies Authority , and the Telecommunications Communication Presidency websites were all unavailable during a DoS after those organizations, responsible for Internet censorship in Turkey, successfully blocked Google sites, including YouTube.

URLS:
1. http://cyberlaw.org.uk/2010/06/18/access-denied-to-turkish-censorship-authorities-websites/

Posted by  DoSWatch at 6:05 PM
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