Blog Wars: Who's Behind the Attacks?
The event isn't even over, and team member Dan Darling has already emailed me an intel briefing on who may be behind the recent anti-warblogger cyber-attacks. Unfortunately, he also echoes the analysis in my last post that there's more to come. Please take his advice seriously.
Incidentally, Dan will be captaining Thursday's Winds of War and Iraq Report briefings from the global War on Terror. Stuff like this is why you don't want to miss him!
Take it away, Dan Darling...
"If the DOS attack that nailed Hosting Matters was from the same source as the one that took out Haganah a few days ago, then it is coming from a number of Malaysia-based websites and internet forums frequented by al-Qaeda supporters from the Gulf. I'm looking around the various forums for more information, but here is the claim of responsibility for the Haganah attack that crippled their website.As-Sahwah has been used in the past as a means of disseminating al-Qaeda propaganda to its supporters the Arab world - and the board administrators, per Haganah, are said to be in contact with member's the terrorist network's media committee.
I thought I'd bring this to your attention not just because if this is them then what happened to Hosting Matters may well be a test run to see how much they could get away with. You might want to consider a friendly warning to other major warbloggers to start backing up data in preparation for such an event."
Indeed.
--- UPDATES ---
- Dan Darling has more information and updates in the Comments section.
- N.B. The kind of people who do things like this are called "crackers," NOT hackers.
- Jeannie at Dodgeblogium wonders if this is what Malaysian PM Mahathir had in mind in his recent speech. Answer: probably. Brace yourselves...
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