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U.S.-Based Chinese Dissident Website DDoS'd Again - And Joe-Jobbed?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 06:52:03 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via UPI. [snip] A U.S.-based Web site that hosts Chinese dissidents' blogs is being hacked again, days after an attack took it offline and nearly destroyed its archives. The Web site, Boxun.com, which hosts some 2000 blogs, was the target of a "very strong" distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack last week, its editor, Watson Meng, told United Press International. He added that hackers probing the Web sites of several U.S. government agencies had "spoofed" or forged their Internet addresses to make it seem as if the probes came from his site. "Our service provider received complaints from a number of government agencies," he said. [snip] More: http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Briefing/2008/01 /07/chinese_dissident_site_hacked_again/3849/ Previously: http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=142072 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHgx2Tq1pz9mNUZTMRAvgvAKDrMpGzmGDEolcpHbgGYJG845WwRACfdM23 bDmuwmNjLIrKQ6HZXKffQpA= =ohog -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "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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- U.S.-Based Chinese Dissident Website DDoS'd Again - And Joe-Jobbed? Paul Ferguson (Jan 08)
- Re: U.S.-Based Chinese Dissident Website DDoS'd Again - And Joe-Jobbed? Dude VanWinkle (Jan 08)
- Re: U.S.-Based Chinese Dissident Website DDoS'd Again - And Joe-Jobbed? Dude VanWinkle (Jan 08)
- Re: U.S.-Based Chinese Dissident Website DDoS'd Again - And Joe-Jobbed? Dude VanWinkle (Jan 08)