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 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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In response, the Bush administration immediately pressed for more severe sanctions against the country.
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The Clinton campaign comes up with a new line of attack on opponent Barack Obama, and the first step is to register the right domain names.
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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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A favored online tactic to mock the president â altering the Google search engine so the words âmiserable failureâ lead to President Bushâs home page â has been neutralized.
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Dick Cheney has accidentally given a boost to opponents by wrongly recalling a website address.
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Less than one week before the US presidential election, incumbent George W. Bush is denying access to potential voters who access his campaign website from foreign locations.
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Web sites for President Bush's campaign and the Republican National Committee suffered outages for several hours on Wednesday.
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United States President George W Bush&#39;s campaign website is inaccessible from outside the United States, blocking access for Americans living in Australia.
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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&#39;s Internet address for six
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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A Utah professor finds himself the target of an unexpected flood of hate mail after posting a report defending the disputed Bush National Guard memos. The incident is one of many examples of the power of bloggers acting in unison. By Staci D. Kramer.
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MacCentral - A handful of Web sites, including the site for the popular open source bulletin board project phpBB, have been compromised this week by a group apparently trying to make a political point.
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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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Media rights groups attacked Sri Lanka&#39;s government for blocking domestic access to a website favouring the Tamil Tiger rebels and for saying it would like hackers to disable the site.
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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.