Al Jazeera Website taken down by Hackers

[Babu]

Rush reports that Hackers have taken down the Al Jazeera Website . . . 3-24-03, start of 2nd hour of Rush Limbaugh

[ukbird]

you don't need to... go to this link:
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1

Type in www.aljazeera.net and click translate. The site will come up in english. And then it can be freeped :)

[Cincinatus]

Many thanks for the link. It works! Unfortunately, however, my stomach ache has returned....

[green team 1999]

Key Arab news station knocked offline


13:47 march-24-2003

NewScientist.com news service

The Arabic satellite television channel Al Jazeera, which on Sunday broadcast controversial footage of US soldiers captured by Iraqi forces, has blamed computer hackers for crashing its online news service on Monday.

The station's web site, which carried still images of the footage, was inaccessible on Monday morning. A spokeswoman for Al Jazeera told New Scientist: "We have a problem. I believe there are some hackers, some attack, but I don't know exactly."

The spokeswoman said an attack could have been prompted by the film broadcast by the station. The Iraqi military provided the footage of forced interviews with five frightened-looking US prisoners of war, as well as images of the corpses of US soldiers.

The graphic pictures have caused outrage in the US and UK media. The US government accuses the Iraqi government of breaching the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, and has pledged to pursue those responsible as war criminals.


Homepage redirect


A tactic frequently used by malicious hackers to bring down a web site is to bombard it with an avalanche of requests from multiple locations - a so-called distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. As of 1200 GMT, the site was intermittently accessible. For more than an hour, its homepage automatically redirected visitors to a new main page further inside the site.

Phil Huggins, a freelance computer security expert in the UK, says the homepage redirection suggests the site was simply overwhelmed by visitors searching for the controversial images.

If the site were under DDOS attack, "you wouldn't want to redirect those requests further into the site". He says it is also more common for DDOS attacks to target the numerical IP address, rather than the domain name - www.aljazeera.net in this case.

A member of the television station's internet department told New Scientist that he thought an big surge in visitors could have brought down the site.

[floriduh voter]

Another kewl x-files character. I watched it when it was on Friday nights. I quit when they moved it to Sunday nights.

[DontMessWithMyCountry]

"the document contained no data" Oh, happy day ;-)

[Tamzee]

The POW tape violates Geneva Convention, Al-Jazeera was promoting it extensively...

... our fine friends are just doing their small part to enforce the Convention.

Sounds immensely law-abiding to me :-)

[MarMema]

the Al Jazeera logo to read, "Al Jizzum"

LOL, that would be extremely satisfying and enjoyable.

[RoseyT]

The translate link did work. I read that the war has postponed the Arab Bowling Championship.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Actually, sir, I believe the proper spelling of "owned" is pWn3d. You forgot the "o" with its tongue sticking out.

Hehehehehehe...

[Spruce]

|-|4 |-|4! $UfF3R 81TcheS!

[IncredibleHulk]

This kind of hacking is a crime, and should not be celebrated anyway, no matter who the target.

The President should try out his new anti-satellite toys on them for showing the pics of our POWs against the geneva convention rules

hulkster

[Salvation]

I admit this is funny!

[Salvation]

Can you click on Languages under Tools>Internet Options

[Freedom2specul8]

"Go Gettum, Patriotic American Geeks!!"

ROFL...dittos!

[Freedom2specul8]

I thought al jeezera (sp) was govt owned?????

[Freedom2specul8]

Who owns al jazeera...the govt?

[Babu]

Tom Dash-hole, Baghdad Bonnier (sp?), McDermott, B. Boxer, Diane Frankenstein, Hitlery the witch Cl____ (that's a 4-letter word, right?), C. Rangel, etc., et al, all probably own stock in ALL JaZOOra, Am I not correct??

[The Scorpion King]

Finally! Some hackers are doing something good for a change!