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Re: Tibetan Wi-Fi Website Attacked
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:39:55 -0400
I always block *.cn from the mail/dns servers and 219.0.0.0/8, 220.0.0.0/8, 221.0.0.0/8, 210.0.0.0/8, 211.0.0.0/8, etc, etc, etc. from the firewall for places that dont need to do business with china :-) -JP<screw 'em> On 8/18/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
Via Wired News. [snip] Organizers of a community wireless mesh-network project in Dharamshala, India, say their website was attacked on Thursday, following publication of a Wired News article about their work for Tibetan refugee settlements. Speaking to Wired News via Skype, project founder Yahel Ben-David said that while the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack on the Tibetan Technology Center website appeared to come from IP addresses from a number of places around the world, they began immediately after scans from an IP address in China. "There was no immediately evident single source for the attack, but it started right after an extensive series of China-based scans," said Ben-David. [snip] More: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,71617-0.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Tibetan Wi-Fi Website Attacked Dude VanWinkle (Aug 18)
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- Re: Tibetan Wi-Fi Website Attacked Dude VanWinkle (Aug 18)