Cyber Blog War , Paranoia or PR Opportunism?
According to an article by Lou Dolinar in Newsday, Al Qaeda may have initiated a denial of service attack aimed at Internet Haganah, a site that tries to get Web hosts to boot sites it believes belong to terrorists. Internet Haganah thinks that a recent DoS attack was directed at it by “hackers associated with Yussuf al-Ayyeri,” an Osama crony.
Although there was a DoS attack last week that shut down a bunch of blogs, the article gives no evidence to support the claim that it was directed at Internet Haganah or that it was instigated by any particular group. According to Internet Haganah, the Al Qaeda group discussed on various bulletin boards how to block its service, but the article doesn’t try to verify even that claim.
This is some sensationalistic, sloppy reporting. Big time.
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from the Who Is directory:
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This arabic site looks like it is planning a DoS against Internet Hagannah to me.
http://groups.msn.com/falastinhorra/page.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=43
It is a list of ip addresses.