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Article #88Re: Local servers used in attack on Whitehouse.
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 18:24
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 18:24
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In article <slrn9fdoml.cu.juergen@monocerus.demon.co.uk>, Juergen Heinzl <juergen@monocerus.demon.co.uk> wrote: >And did actually something significant happen ? I mean if they'd brought >down 50% of all adult sites, oh my, that would have been something, but >else ? Yes, there was a DoS attack on whitehouse.gov on Friday (I don't know offhand about any of the other sites that the OP mentioned). Several of our people spent most of the day fending them off. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Burlington, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
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