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Japan's Foreign Ministry Website Slowed

An AP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

The Japanese Foreign Ministry's Web site was slowed Tuesday, apparently by a massive number of attempts to access it, an official said.

The Web site was not shut down, but it remained still "very slow" nearly 15 hours after the problem began early Tuesday morning, said Kenichi Kasahara of the Foreign Ministry's information technology office.

Officials were investigating the cause of the problem, which may have been caused by a massive number of access attempts from outside the ministry, Kasahara said.

He said that no damage was done to information posted on the site.

Kasahara refused to speculate on whether the site had suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which individuals or groups deliberately cause a slowdown by making a large number of coordinated access attempts.

posted by Fergie @ 9/19/2006 10:32:00 AM