[imc-uk-emergency] [feature] proposal on cyberactions/attacks

[Chris Croome]

Hi

Some more info on this:

  Notice: aljazeera.net website is offline.

  URL forwarding traffic to aljazeera.net has been suspended due to an
  overwhelming amount of traffic that has interupted services for our
  customers. 

  http://www.aljazeera.net/

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  For Immediate Release
  March 27, 2003
  Contact: Dotster Inc.
  dotnews at dotster.com
  
  ALJAZEERA.NET DOMAIN HACKED AND MOVED TO MYDOMAIN.COM
  
  Arab satellite TV network’s nameservers changed to MyDomain URL
  forwarding service by hacker; MyDomain reacts by suspending service.
  
  VANCOUVER, Wash. – MyDomain.com, host to more than 600,000
  domain names using its free URL forwarding and e-mail services,
  discovered this morning the domain aljazeera.net had been moved to
  MyDomain servers. MyDomain has learned from NavLink, the company
  that hosts the aljazeera.net Web site from its data centers in
  France, that Al Jazeera’s domain name account at Network
  Solutions was compromised. The hacker changed the Web site’s
  nameservers to point to MyDomain nameservers and erected a page
  displaying the American flag.
  
  In response, MyDomain has disabled its free URL forwarding service
  to the domain aljazeera.net. NavLink has confirmed to MyDomain that
  it has regained access to the account at Network Solutions and
  changed the nameservers back to the correct settings. The nameserver
  changes typically take between 24 and 72 hours to propagate on the
  Internet.
  
  http://mydomain.com/about/aljazeera
  
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