That wasn't the case with The Sports Network. The individuals, loosely calling themselves 'Revenge for the Flame' and 'HackCNN' feel that Western media have not presented a balanced view in reporting on the protests in Tibet and the Olympic torch runs through major world cities.įor the most part, CNN appears to have avoided the brunt of the Chinese DDoS attacks. Over the weekend, The Dark Visitor reported on the structure in place for launching attacks on Western media. CNN.com did suffer a minor DDoS last Thursday, but recovered by limiting access from certain geographic areas, mainly Asia.Īlso on Tuesday, The Dark Visitor, a site that tracks Chinese hackers, said a downloadable tool is now available for those wanting to participate in future attacks.
And on Monday, the site experienced inflated response times. Netcraft reported Tuesday that during a three-hour period on Sunday morning, the CNN.com site was unavailable from its listening post in Pennsylvania. Although CNN escaped a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack planned for Saturday, the site has experienced either random outages or inflated response times over the last 72 hours, according to one Internet research company.
