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April 21, 2008 10:19 AM

Chinese Hackers Knock SportsNetwork Offline; CNN.com Survives



A planned cyber-attack against CNN.com fizzled over the weekend, but The Sports Network did not survive the DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) assault by Chinese hackers.

At 10:00 a.m. on Monday morning, The Sports Network home page carried this note:

"The Sports Network website and other major news sites have been hacked by a political entity from China, and as a result are temporarily unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to be back up and running as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding."

TechCrunch has a screenshot of the defaced site, which mentions the China/Tibet political situation.

The Sports Network takedown follows a public threat by Chinese hacker groups to attack CNN.com.

According to Arbor Networks researcher Jose Nazario, the CNN.com attacks did materialize but didn't seem to disrupt the site's operation:

Nazario writes:

Most of the attacks were TCP SYN floods (still popular after all these years), targeting three different CNN websites. Attack intensity was pretty small on average, with the peak attack intensity still a modest (by global attack standards) 100 Mbps.
Chinese Hackers Knock SportsNetwork Offline; CNN.com Survives
Attacks against CNN by type over the weekend.


The raw details of the CNN.com attack:

Attack bandwidth -- peak: 100 Mbps, average: 20 Mbps
Attack duration -- peak: 30 minutes, average: under 15 minutes
Attack targets -- www2.cnn.com, www3.cnn.com, edition.cnn.com

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SaveUsFromUltraNationalism :

Someone tell me how this ultra-nationalist behavior isn't reminiscent of Nazi Germany? The 'zeal' shown by slights where people threaten to destroy companies and countries for comments of individuals? As if, in a free country like the U.S. we limit the speech of individuals...

I have to believe that by mob mentality driven by government controlled press is shown around as a weapon by the Chinese government. It is another tool they use to show that even with all the investment, giving away of technology, and kowtowing to them, they will show you that they have their people on a swivel and turn them anyway they please.

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