Re: Tibetan Wi-Fi Website Attacked

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

I always block *.cn from the mail/dns servers and 219.0.0.0/8,
220.0.0.0/8, 221.0.0.0/8, 210.0.0.0/8, 211.0.0.0/8, etc, etc, etc.
from the firewall for places that dont need to do business with china
:-)

-JP<screw 'em>

On 8/18/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Via Wired News.
>
> [snip]
>
> Organizers of a community wireless mesh-network project in Dharamshala,
> India, say their website was attacked on Thursday, following
> publication of a Wired News article about their work for Tibetan
> refugee settlements.
>
> Speaking to Wired News via Skype, project founder Yahel Ben-David said
> that while the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack on the
> Tibetan Technology Center website appeared to come from IP addresses
> from a number of places around the world, they began immediately after
> scans from an IP address in China.
>
> "There was no immediately evident single source for the attack, but it
> started right after an extensive series of China-based scans," said
> Ben-David.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,71617-0.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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