The Viking Observer notes a cyber attack has been launched against the Danish media. Why you ask? It’s all because of the cartoons.
A large number of Danish papers´ web versions have crashed. Suspicions immediately center on the hacker attacks being because of the Mohammed-drawings in Jyllands-Posten. ..
All the web media hit are hosted on the same servers at the internet company Metropol Online, owned by Berlingske (Danish publishing house). ..
Among the media hit is the homepage of Jyllands-Postens, www.jp.dk, which creates suspicions, that hackers are trying to hit the paper as part of the row over the papers´ Mohammed-drawings.
These attacks, commonly refered to as DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service), are fairly easy to do. They are so easy to do that people with only a very limited knowledge of computers and the Internet can conceivably take down an entire site with such an attack.
Blogs covering the story have also been hit according to Danish news reports. One such blog which has covered the Danish cartoon story exceptionally well, The Brussels Journal, will not load. It hasn’t loaded for well over an hour at present (2:45 p.m. CST).
The Viking Observer notes there is a Danish counter-attack in the works.
A Danish chain-mail that is circulating by email urges people to take part in a web-based attack on arab media. This happens in reaction to the hacker-attack on Danish papers´ websites over the weekend.
The affair about the Mohammed-drawings of the paper Jyllands-Posten has now set off a hacker-war on the internet. Over the weekend several Danish papers´ web-versions, among them Jyllands-Posten, were attacked by hackers, and speculation has been rife, that the drawings might be the reason for the attack. Now a Danish chain-mail spreading via email urges to take part in a counter-attack on arab media.
The email starts out with the headline “Denmark under attack by moslem hackers” and contains an attached program, that starts a so-called denial-of-service attack on five arab media, among them Al-Jazeera, Arab News og Gulf News.
In the letter the recipient is urged to let the program run on his computer to bombard the arab media with data and thus block their homepages.
All this over some stupid cartoons.
Hat tip to The Jawa Report.
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It’s ok to bad mouth Catholics, Jews, etc. Freedow of speach, but say one word about the savages Muslim Animals. And the world must come to a stand still. The world would be a better place with out them.
The definition of Muslim : An Animal, Savage,
uncontrollablehuman, uncaring, scum of the earth, A Terrorist
Comment by tony — Tuesday, February 7, 2006 @ 12:23 pm UTC
To Kevin,
I don’t wanna get into the debate whether Islam is the only intolerant and hatefull religion in the world. I advise you to look at your Christian acivities all around the world for centuries when your grandpa’s were sucking the blood of millions of Africans, Asians and American natives… Than you can possibly see if your religion has a difference or not… And, I do wanna remind you that not every society has to follow the modernisation path as you did… Your civilisation is selling all resources and enrichness of our planet for more money and advantages of your kind… Read more books and you will see the dark side of your civilisation… Or just see Iraq… Only one bomb exploded in London tubes and you were terrified, but your govs’ occupy those land and kill people for your sweet, delightful, shining Western style consumption culture… The world has had enough of Eurocentric attitudes… Time is coming to an end for your superior positions. Sorry…
Comment by Babylon — Wednesday, February 8, 2006 @ 9:03 am UTC
I don’t wanna get into the debate whether Islam is the only intolerant and hatefull religion in the world. I advise you to look at your Christian acivities all around the world for centuries when your grandpa’s were sucking the blood of millions of Africans, Asians and American natives… Than you can possibly see if your religion has a difference or not… And, I do wanna remind you that not every society has to follow the modernisation path as you did… Your civilisation is selling all resources and enrichness of our planet for more money and advantages of your kind… Read more books and you will see the dark side of your civilisation… Or just see Iraq… Only one bomb exploded in London tubes and you were terrified, but your govs’ occupy those land and kill people for your sweet, delightful, shining Western style consumption culture… The world has had enough of Eurocentric attitudes… Time is coming to an end for your superior positions. Sorry…
Comment by Babylon — Wednesday, February 8, 2006 @ 9:04 am UTC
ALL THIS IS BOLLOCKS,NOTHING SAID WHEN CHRIST IS SLAGGED OFF BUT ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE WHEN PEOPLE SAY SOMETHING ABOUT ALLAH OR THE MUSLIM FAITH.ALL THEM F-ERS WERE DANCING IN THE STREETS WHEN 9-11 & 7-7 HAPPENED ALSO DOES IT NOT PISS YOU OFF WHEN A MUSLIM GETS ATTACKED I’TS ALWAYS RACE RELATED & NOBODY BATTERS A EYE LID WHEN IT’S A WHITE PERSON WHO IS ON THE RECIEVING END. THEY ALL HATE US AND OUR COUNTRY WELL WHY ARE THEY HERE? THEY SHOULD ALL F-OFF BACK TO THEIR POVERTY STRICKEN COUNTRY AND THE WORLD WOULD BE A HELL OF A BETTER PLACE.THANK YOU FOR READING.
Comment by MR STE — Thursday, February 9, 2006 @ 3:54 pm UTC