Possible DoS? Japan's Foreign Ministry Website Slowed

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via Yahoo! News (AP).

[snip]

The Japanese Foreign Ministry's Web site was slowed Tuesday, apparently
by a massive number of attempts to access it, an official said.

The Web site was not shut down, but it remained still "very slow"
nearly 15 hours after the problem began early Tuesday morning, said
Kenichi Kasahara of the Foreign Ministry's information technology office.

Officials were investigating the cause of the problem, which may have
been caused by a massive number of access attempts from outside the
ministry, Kasahara said.

He said that no damage was done to information posted on the site.

Kasahara refused to speculate on whether the site had suffered a
denial-of-service attack, in which individuals or groups deliberately
cause a slowdown by making a large number of coordinated access attempts.

[snip]

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060919/ap_on_hi_te/japan_cyberattack

- ferg


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