Re: NY times appears to have had a rough morning..

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () max ibm net il>]

On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Derek Balling wrote:

For HFG always check document source for previous hacked sites and their
"hidden" agenda.  Also it gives a clue that they are not 15 year old high
school kids as their CAPs and number/character alterations attempt to
deceive.  -Hank

> What I think you missed is that shortly after I received this post (and
> looked at the NYTimes web site) they corrected the problem which caused the
> original post.
>
> www.nytimes.com got hacked. If you missed it, and feel the urge to check it
> out, I made a mirror of it at http://www.megacity.org/hacked_nytimes/ ... I
> don't plan to keep it more than a few days I suspect (I'm not one of those
> hacked-website collectors like some places *grin*), but I kept it for
> posterity of those who might want to check it out.
>
> D
>
> At 10:50 AM 9/13/98 -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
> > Richard Irving wrote:
> >
> > > Hrmm.. This sunday am I logged into www.nytimes.com,
> > > and got an unusual front page. Someone may want to take 
> > > a look......
> >
> > Looks like the classicalunderconfigured/overloaded server to me.  They were
> > probably running with not much spare capacity before, or didn't configure the
> > correct number of listening processes (or enough RAM to handle them).
> >
> > Possibly a SYN attack.  But on this date, more likely a demand "attack".
> >
> > This is not unusual when you consider the total capacity is ultimately
> > determined by the suits.
> >
> > FYI, I had no trouble pulling it from icreport.loc.gov.  I got it in the
> > evening, which would have been the 2nd demand curve for the day.  So server
> > capacity there was enough to deliver it in that probably broader hump.  But
> > maybe the masses, who normally go checking news sites and wouldn't recognize
> > a .gov site as even being an Internet thing, were clobbering places like
> > www.nytimes.com.  Even www.cnn.com seemed kinda slow to me.
> >
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Hank Nussbacher