Posted on 10/18/2003 12:46:05 AM PDT by JohnathanRGalt
A severe DoS (Denial of Service Attack) has been launched by several sites/persons unnamed against a lone American site. This American site was considered important enough to attack regardless of the consequences. The attacks brought down many other internet sites in the process. The 'packet storm' has been incredible.
Quoting Aaron:
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10/17/2003: Al Qaeda Attacks Blogosphere |
The Denial of Service attack that hit the Hosting Matters system last night and took down LGF, Instapundit, and many other blogs, was directed at Aaron Weisburds Internet Haganah by a group of Al Qaeda-affiliated web sites. Here is Aarons explanation of what happened and why: Al Qaeda Internet attack.
#5 | ralph 10/17/2003 10:23AM PST |
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#47 | aaron 10/17/2003 01:54PM PST |
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For the record, Arabic-language Al Qaida-affiliated web sites and forums where discussions of attacking 'Al Haganah' were hosted include but are not limited to the following:
sahwah.com
alerhap.com
geocities.com/haack7
islamonline.com
vbzoom.com (not sure about the .com, don't have access to the log files)
vbnaajm.com (same as above, re: extension)
albargothy.com/.net/.org
82lj.net
arabhackerz.com
The most serious of these people are they guys at alerhap, a site which previously had been unlisted by us at the request of those people in the DC area who saw fit to *not* warn us of the impending attack.
This is not a matter of political opinion. When I say that a site is affiliated with such and such a group, I mean it, and I'm backed up by some of the world's leading experts in Islamic extremism (who are also fluent in Arabic).
As I said earlier, haganah.org.il is going down in flames too, which makes fund-raising kind of difficult at the moment. As long as they only have to knock off one site at a time this will continue. Welcome to the wonderful world of information warfare.
And yes, for the record, I feel just a little stupid for advocating a lawful approach to dealing with terrorist-affiliated web sites, but frankly, it works better. A denial of service attack, whether it's against us or against them, only knocks a site off line for so long. Using the lawful approach of simply asking people to not host such sites has resulted in a great many sites going off line for good.
#52 | aaron 10/17/2003 02:06PM PST |
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you might be able to reach the site here: Hurricane Electric appears to have null routed the haganah.org.il domain name for the time being (they host that domain). As for the details of the attack, they constitute evidence of a criminal act, a matter I'll be taking up with the JTTF in both Illinois and Florida come Monday. (I'm in Illinois, the targeted server was in Florida). I doubt the Feds will do much, but I'll be putting them on notice in any event. |
#56 | aaron 10/17/2003 02:17PM PST |
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Just to make one thing perfectly clear: neither Hosting Matters, nor Annette, ever said that it was an attack by Qaida, or more accurately, Qaida supporters, Islamists of the the Salafyist/Wahhabist variety. I said that and there is every reason to believe that I am correct. |
#57 | Nancy 10/17/2003 02:18PM PST |
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This is only a recent post --among countless others which have named Haganah specifically. The e-jihad in Islam Bismillahi ar-Rahmani ar-Rahim |
#63 | Connecticut Yankee 10/17/2003 02:53PM PST |
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You mean Al Gore didn't foresee Al Qaeda DOS attacks when he invented the Interne |
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#106 | aaron 10/17/2003 06:52PM PST |
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what cedar said. give them a f*cking break for goodness sake. or try staying up for 24 or 48 or 72 hours dealing with a DoS attack (been there and done that) and see how *you* feel and function on the far end of that experience. or find some other thread to post on, ok. me, I'm going to take my dog for a walk. |
#119 | aaron 10/17/2003 07:26AM PST |
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Background: Supporters of a number of Al Qaida-affiliated forums registered to Saudis and running in Malaysia basically declared an online Jihad against Haganah after 8 such sites lost their third party DNS service a couple of weeks ago (the DNS provider decided they didn't want to provide services to such folks). The result was that the sites dropped offline, and four of them remain offline. GeoCities sites have been used to distribute the attack tools, and a site at Everyone's Internet posted howto graphics that show not just how to use the tools, but specifically how to use them to attack our site. Hosting Matters has done their best to keep the site online in the face of an increasing level of hostile traffic, but there's only so much one can do unless you can get someone at the backbone level to block the incoming 'rounds.' The only long-term solution for us is to either go underground or distribute the site as mirrors located at multiple locations. The latter approach takes money and/or donated server accounts. Estimated cost is about $3500/year, and we currently have $150 in our PayPal account. I'm adding subscription/repeating donation options to the PayPal offerings, we're about to roll out a line of merchandise, snail-mail donations can be made (address available upon request), etc. We'll see how it goes. The odds of the Feds doing anything to bring the people responsible to justice are virtually nil. |
#124 | aaron 10/17/2003 08:12AM PST |
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TO: aaron
Knocking off our web site is easier than, say, knocking me off, what with that loaded gun that's here beside my keyboard... |
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#126 | aaron 10/17/2003 08:47AM PST |
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Charles: Yes, Annette has been in contact directly to confirm that Haganah was the target. I really can't say enough good things about Hosting Matters. Details about the attack are not ready for release yet. Cleanup will take a while, but what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. And as for those sites that the Feds didn't want listed, I got bad news: all bets are off. I know for a fact that sites used to plan this attack are under surveillance, and did anyone in the US give me a heads up? Hell no. The Israelis, on the other hand, have done their level best to keep me informed, despite the fact that Haganah's efforts to take down Jihadi sites, and their efforts to monitor those sites, sometimes conflict. Nevertheless, they at least realize that we're all on the same side. I'm not so sure about the folks in and around the Beltway, however. |
Amen.
On The Net...English.ALJAZEERA.net - NEWS - Arab World: "FULL TEXT OF THE MESSAGE Usama bin Ladin has issued a message to the American people, broacast on Saturday on Aljazeera television. A full and exclusive translation follows:") (October 17, 2003)
On The Net...English.ALJAZEERA.net - NEWS - Arab World: "AL-QAIDA VOWS ANTI-US ATTACKS Al-Qaida Number Two Aymann al-Zawahri has called on Iraqis to "devour" their American occupiers") (September 10, 2003)
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