Hacking the vote (literally)

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=21625
FBI investigates attack on Bouchard Web site
Source: Detnews.com
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061107/UPDATE/611070420

The FBI is investigating an apparent attack by hackers that today shut
down the Internet Web site of U.S. Senate candidate Mike Bouchard.
Anyone trying to log on to MikeforMichigan.com gets a message saying
the site was shut down as a result of an attack by hackers. David All,
a spokesman for Bouchard's Republican campaign, said attackers created
a program that resulted in the site being bombarded with massive
requests for information that shut the site down. Workers were trying
to get the site back up but it was unlikely to happen before the polls
closed, All said.

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Weird, it doesn't seem like much could be accomplished by taking down
a politicians site the day of the elections. Makes me think this was
either done by a moron, or someone who was just sending a message..

-JP
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