Tibetan Wi-Fi Website Attacked

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

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


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