Re: Local servers used in attack on Whitehouse.

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From: Juergen Heinzl
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:08

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In article <VLBJ6.15$Bv4.912@burlma1-snr2>, Barry Margolin wrote:
>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.
[-]
I know about that one, but did not consider it significant to be
honest. More of symbolic value, never mind ;-)

Some defaced WWW sites, too, yep, so mostly fun stuff at the end of
the day, nothing really impressive,
Juergen

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From: juergen@monocerus.demon.co.uk (Juergen Heinzl)
Newsgroups: comp.security.firewalls,bellsouth.net.security,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,comp.security.misc
Subject: Re: Local servers used in attack on Whitehouse.
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:08:33 GMT
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