DNS attacks are not NEW. It is surprising that the Al-Jazeera ISP and web admins did not anticipate this kind of a response. Especially given the barrage of denunciations they have received in the US media and by US politicians. There are *known* ways to overcome DNS. They should have been smarter about it. K Guillaume Latzko-Toth wrote:
Thank you Frank for this follow-up. I hope that some investigation will be done just like when the website of eBay and co. were attacked. I would not be surprised to learn that this DoS was the fact of an individual "hacker" motivated by sheer hatred. Paradoxically, the difficulty of controlling the Internet is like a double-edged weapon: it can make happen the blooming of blogs, but in a context of high-scale misinformation/desinformation and manipulation of public opinion, it can also generate self-justice behaviors, the "cyber-Rambo" syndrome.
Guillaume
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