UK government website
10 Downing Street (also at
this URL) was briefly rendered
inaccessible yesterday after a co-ordinated denial of service attack protesting the Prime Minster's role in the conflict.
The site, which runs IIS on Win2K (according to
Netcraft), is back on-line.
Unconfirmed reports suggest hackers went one step further with the Whitehouse site, reportedly spraying it with anti-war graffiti. Defacement archive,
Zone-h.org, links to a record of this
supposed defacement, although its report contain a strong caveat that it wasn't able to capture and confirm the attack itself. Zone-h's affiliate ZATAZ Magazine provides an
archive of the brief defacement of
Whitehouse.gov. The
site, which uses an
Apache on Linux platform, is now up and running.
Separately, defacement group Carders defaced 3,000 (
seemingly random) Web sites, again over the weekend. Its motives in this attack remain unclear, though it likely that these
sites were also attacked as part of an anti-war protest. ®
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