Posted on 08/10/2006 7:52:20 PM PDT by bobsunshine
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's campaign Web site remained offline Thursday, and federal and state authorities were investigating why it crashed on the eve of this week's defeat in a high-profile primary.
The site, Joe2006.com, appeared to have suffered from a so-called "denial of service" attack, in which computers overwhelm a site with fake traffic, preventing real visitors from getting through or, in this case, causing it to crash, said Richard M. Smith, an Internet security consultant in Brookline, Mass.
Lieberman said the situation is hindering his efforts to reach out nationally for campaign donations.
"But of course that's the world we live in, that anybody anywhere in the world, if able to, can hack into another site anywhere else in the world," he said while visiting Waterbury on Thursday.
The Lieberman campaign denied speculation among liberal Web pundits that the centrist Democrat's Web site had simply crashed because it used a low-budget Web host unable to handle the volume.
Web hosting can cost anywhere from a few dollars a month for a personal Web site to thousands of dollars for large corporate sites.
The campaign spends about $100 to $150 a month on Web hosting services with MyHostCamp, said Dan Geary, who administers the site for the campaign. Geary said that MyHostCamp, which is owned by a friend of Geary's, gave the site more than enough bandwidth _ 200 gigabytes a month _ to handle a crush of visitors.
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Fact is that they may already have the suspects identified. According to sources who have tangible evidence, this was a pre-coordinated attack and may have involved some of those who tried to explain the crime away
If I were Joe, thankfully I'm not, I would be more worried about the fact that his name was not on the ballot in at least one place.
Leni
Communist tactics.
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