Anti-terror site targeted
Denial-of-service attacks shut down Haganah
Posted on 10/19/2003 10:08:40 AM PDT by JohnathanRGalt
Anti-terror site targeted
Denial-of-service attacks shut down Haganah
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
A website devoted to shutting down Internet supporters of terrorism has itself been shut down by denial-of-service attacks directed from Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Internet Haganah, an Israeli-based website that works to uncover and shut down terrorist-sponsored Internet entities, was attacked by hackers beginning Thursday. As of yesterday, the site was still offline. Editor's Note: As of early today, the site was still offline
Supporters of a number of al Qaida-affiliated forums registered to Saudis and running in Malaysia declared "an online jihad against Haganah" after eight such terror-related sites lost their third-party DNS service, according to a spokesman for the organization. The result was that the sites dropped offline, and four of them remain offline.
GeoCities sites have been used to distribute the attack tools, and a site at Everyone's Internet posted graphics that show not just how to use the tools, but specifically how to use them to attack the site.
Hosting Matters has done its best to keep the site online in the face of an increasing level of hostile traffic, but there's only so much one can do unless you can get someone at the backbone level to block the incoming attacks, explained Internet Haganah.
"The only long-term solution for us is to either go underground or distribute the site as mirrors located at multiple locations," said a source at Haganah, which means "defense." The group claims it does not have money to overcome the attacks.
While it is against the law to hack sites, a spokesman said: "The odds of the Feds doing anything to bring the people responsible to justice are virtually nil."
According to Andrew Weisburd, Internet Haganah has helped shut down 65 terrorism-related websites in the U.S. and overseas by contacting government officials and hosting companies. Now the organization itself has been shut down by illegal attacks.
Internet Haganah, formed after the U.S. terrorism attacks in 2001, tracks about 50 terrorism-related websites, he said.
Internet Haganah's members are U.S. and Israeli counter-terrorism and Internet experts, Weisburd said.
Jew-boy's Site Goes Dooooooown!!!!!!!
Al-Qa'eedah supporters have alledgedly struck a deadly bow to the heart of the zionist site Internet Haganah. Supporters of a number of Al Qaida-affiliated forums registered to Saudis and running in Malaysia basically declared an online Jihad against Haganah after 8 such sites lost their third party DNS service a couple of weeks ago (the DNS provider decided they didn't want to provide services to such folks). The result was that the sites dropped offline, and four of them remain offline.
GeoCities sites have been used to distribute the attack tools, and a site at Everyone's Internet posted howto graphics that show not just how to use the tools, but specifically how to use them to attack our site. Hosting Matters has done their best to keep the site online in the face of an increasing level of hostile traffic, but there's only so much one can do unless you can get someone at the backbone level to block the incoming 'rounds.' The only long-term solution for us is to either go underground or distribute the site as mirrors located at multiple locations. The latter approach takes money and/or donated server accounts. Estimated cost is about $3500/year, and we currently have $150 in our PayPal account. I'm adding subscription/repeating donation options to the PayPal offerings, we're about to roll out a line of merchandise, snail-mail donations can be made (address available upon request), etc. We'll see how it goes. The odds of the Feds doing anything to bring the people responsible to justice are virtually nil... Haganah is something of a known quantity in places like Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Syria. These guys take their web sites very seriously, since the sites are an important part of their communications infrastructure. This situation has been developing over the last few weeks. Knocking off our web site is easier than, say, knocking me off, what with that loaded gun that's here beside my keyboard..." Wooooooah! What a gangster. Allahu Akhbar. Allahu Akhbar. Allahu Akhbar. Let's hope that he stays offline for a very long time, and that all of the Jihad sites taken down due to his interference are soon up and running again insha'Allah. And to those who made a stand, may it count as hasanat for you on Yawm-ul-Qiyyamah.
wassalam, Totally Impressed.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alameen. ameen.
Salaam,
I agree with you umm,the victory is ours La shakk insha'allah |
The fatwa was made last year (not from bin Laden himself but from one of his minons). I could send you the URL, but the database is gone right now so you'll have to take my word for it.
We've heard that the group had some kind of crude cyber-terrorism division, could this be their work?
No, actually it is not crude at all. It is quite large and well funded.
Given their move onto the Internet, I wonder if they'll write a Cyber version of the Koran:
"And kill DOS them wherever you find them, and drive them out from [the internet] whence they drove you out, and persecution DOS is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque IP until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay DOS them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers hackers." - Koran, Surah II:191, "The Cow Hacker."
On The Net...AS-SAHWAH.com: "IslamicAwakening.Com Discussion Board: Da'wah: THE KILLING OF ALL ON PATH OF DEVIANCY" -Posted by "abdullah" (NOTE: Abdullah's Poster profile: "Profile of hajjaj bin yousuf-ish tendencies (Digitalrain) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * E-mail: ishahid82@hotmail.com * Occupation" talib ul sheik mohammad salim adud mauritani * City: chicago * State/Province: il * Country: usa * Personal Quote: when you are born you cry while others are happy, just make sure when you die you are happy while others cry * Age: 19 * Sex (M/F): m") (October 15, 2003)
And, I wonder who all read this article? (Note: url 404.)
From the GeoCities backup site:
For Internet Haganah to have a fighting chance of surviving such attacks we need to mirror our site at multiple locations, on different backbones, in different datacenters. This costs money, money we don't have.Contributions to Internet Haganah at this time will go towards securing additional servers, domain names, DNS services and other expenses related to making our presence on the internet more resistant to future attacks.
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