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Tibetan Wi-Fi Website Attacked

Xeni Jardin writes on Wired News:

Organizers of a community wireless mesh-network project in Dharamshala, India, say their website was attacked on Thursday, following publication of a Wired News article about their work for Tibetan refugee settlements.

Speaking to Wired News via Skype, project founder Yahel Ben-David said that while the distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack on the Tibetan Technology Center website appeared to come from IP addresses from a number of places around the world, they began immediately after scans from an IP address in China.

"There was no immediately evident single source for the attack, but it started right after an extensive series of China-based scans," said Ben-David.

posted by Fergie @ 8/18/2006 09:59:00 AM