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MIDDLE EAST: AL-JAZEERA WEBSITE BOMBARDED BY HACKERS.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, March, 2003

According to the Kuwaiti Kuna news agency (March 27, 2003), the newly launched English-language page, which went live Monday, was hardest hit in a bombardment of data packets known as a denial-of-service attack. Ayman Arrashid, Internet system administrator at the Horizons Media and Information Services, the site's Web host, said the attack began Tuesday morning local time.

The Web host is based in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. The servers that host the Al-Jazeera site are in France and the United States. Only the US servers were under attack, said Arrashid, so the attackers were likely in the United States. He said technicians were working to thwart the attack, but could not estimate when the site would be fully available again. The English site carries at...

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