Attack prompts Bush website block
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The re-election website of President Bush is blocking overseas visitors because of "security reasons".
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The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has barred people outside the United States from viewing its Web site following an electronic attack that took down the campaign's Internet address for six hours last week, according  to computer security experts.
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A group claiming links to al Qaeda said  the re-election of President Bush would drag America into  "hell" and that he would not be able to protect his country  from attacks, according to an Internet statement.
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A video game that prompts players to kill characters that look like President Bush has been posted on a number of Islamist Web sites.
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People based outside the US have been unable to visit the re-election website of the President Bush.
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A computer hacker promoting Turkish nationalism posted a video and message on a U.S. Vietnam memorial Web site in recent days, blocking one of the site's search functions while defacing the site with a statement against the United States and Israel.
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Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycosâs anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack.
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President Bush's move yesterday to block congressional testimony by two former aides provoked immediate condemnations from Democratic lawmakers and escalated a confrontation between the White House and Capitol Hill over the dismissals of nine U.S. attorneys.
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Several major websites are brought down by the largest denial-of-service attacks ever staged. Compiled by Tony Long.
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The Bush administration moved Tuesday to block the assets of two Saudi men accused of providing support to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, Adel Batterjee and Saad al-Faqih.
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TEHRAN: Internet access to three websites close to Iranian&#39;s leading reformist party has been blocked by the authorities, prompting a protest by the party leader.
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The attack sent shudders through a region where anger toward the U.S. has surged in recent weeks.
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The domain registrar and hosting firm reports disrupted service Sunday from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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InfoWorld - Online attackers have briefly disrupted service on at least two of the 13 &quot;root&quot; servers that are used to direct traffic on the Internet.
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The Estonian news site Delfi.ee weathers a two-week-long denial of service attack as uneasy political situation heats up again.
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&quot;One thousand US casualties. Two Americans beheaded just this week. The Pentagon admits terrorists are pouring into Iraq. In the face of the Iraq quagmire, George Bush&#39;s answer is to run a juvenile and tasteless attack ad.
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(InfoWorld) - Online attackers have briefly disrupted service on at least two of the 13 "root" servers that are used to direct traffic on the Internet. The attack, which began Tuesday at about 5:30 a.m. Eastern time, was the most significant attack against the root servers since an October 2002 DDoS attack, said Ben Petro, senior vice president of services with Internet service provider Neustar. Root servers manage the Internet's DNS, used to translate Web addresses such as Amazon.com into the numerical IP addresses used by machines. The attack appeared to have been launched by a group of compromised PCs, called a botnet, Petro said. "Two of the root servers suffered badly, although they did not completely crash; some of the others also saw heavy traffic," said John Crain, chief technical officer with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The two hardest-hit servers are maintained by the U.S. Department of Defense and ICANN, he added. The botnet briefly overwhelmed these servers with useless requests, causing them to occasionally hang, but did not disrupt Internet service, Petro said. By 10:30 a.m., Internet service providers were able to filter enough of the traffic from the botnet machines that traffic to and from the root servers was essentially back to normal. Compared to other DDoS attacks, this one did not have a lot of firepower. Petro said the bandwidth of the attack could be measured in megabytes, as opposed to the gigabyte-level attacks that are now frequently seen. "It was a small attack, but it was focused and targeted at the roots," he said. It is unclear where the attack originated, Crain said. "The effect of this traffic on the end users was negligible," he added. Petro said engineers are still "scratching their heads" about the reason for the attack. Although some DDoS attacks are launched for political reasons or to extort money from Web site owners, this one appeared to have no such purpose, he said. Crain ventured a guess as to the attack's effect, however. "I suspect that the largest effect of the DNS traffic was to deprive some engineers of sleep and generate press," he wrote.