FadeTheButcher
07-29-2004, 01:26 PM
by Frank Weltner
St. Louis, Missouri, July 26, 2004 – The research website jewwatch.com (http://www.jewwatch.com/) was recently the victim of one of the largest-scale eTerror attacks in Internet history.
A massive denial of service attack temporarily shut down the online database of information about world Jewry, along with much of AOL Time Warner Cable within the surrounding regional service area. The giant cable company was forced to temporarily remove the IP addresses of www.jewwatch.com in order to restore normal service levels to its millions of users.
The ISP for Jew Watch found all of its services paralyzed, causing its hundreds of corporate customer servers--many of them housing 1,000 or more websites per server--to lose access to the Internet due to the constant pounding of service connections addressing the several Jew Watch IP addresses. Traffic to all 250+ servers slowed to a trickle, then to nothing.
Jew Watch, according to owner Frank Weltner, was unplugged, and the entire system's 250+ servers were restarted in order to restore service to the ISP’s major customers. The Jew Watch server remained unplugged for almost an entire day to ensure that the attack against the site had ended.
In addition, AOL Time Warner grounded Jew Watch’s IP addresses for more than 24 hours in order to ensure that the attack, which was came from hundreds of major University and corporate computers, had subsided.
At the time of the failure of AOL Time Warner’s cable lines, more than 350 megabits of DOS signals were hitting its congested and rapidly failing Gordian knot of routers, fiberoptics, and other Internet connecting devices as they entered the tangled geographical area of the Jew Watch domain. This eTerror punch was equivalent to a minimum of 150 T1 super-fast Internet connections meant for up to 10,000 customers, each at maximum burst. According to two engineers at the Jew Watch ISP Headquarters, the real number of T1 connections aimed at www.jewwatch.com may have been in the thousands.
After remaining offline for approximately 22 hours to ensure that the attack had ended, the IP addresses were ungrounded by AOL Time Warner and the connections to the Internet's most popular news and research site for information on world Jewry was re-established. Jew Watch’s Internet connection was restored at approximately 4:15PM on Tuesday, July 27, 2004.
Frank Weltner is the Director and Librarian of www.jewwatch.com
http://www.jewwatch.com (http://www.jewwatch.com/)
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St. Louis, Missouri, July 26, 2004 – The research website jewwatch.com (http://www.jewwatch.com/) was recently the victim of one of the largest-scale eTerror attacks in Internet history.
A massive denial of service attack temporarily shut down the online database of information about world Jewry, along with much of AOL Time Warner Cable within the surrounding regional service area. The giant cable company was forced to temporarily remove the IP addresses of www.jewwatch.com in order to restore normal service levels to its millions of users.
The ISP for Jew Watch found all of its services paralyzed, causing its hundreds of corporate customer servers--many of them housing 1,000 or more websites per server--to lose access to the Internet due to the constant pounding of service connections addressing the several Jew Watch IP addresses. Traffic to all 250+ servers slowed to a trickle, then to nothing.
Jew Watch, according to owner Frank Weltner, was unplugged, and the entire system's 250+ servers were restarted in order to restore service to the ISP’s major customers. The Jew Watch server remained unplugged for almost an entire day to ensure that the attack against the site had ended.
In addition, AOL Time Warner grounded Jew Watch’s IP addresses for more than 24 hours in order to ensure that the attack, which was came from hundreds of major University and corporate computers, had subsided.
At the time of the failure of AOL Time Warner’s cable lines, more than 350 megabits of DOS signals were hitting its congested and rapidly failing Gordian knot of routers, fiberoptics, and other Internet connecting devices as they entered the tangled geographical area of the Jew Watch domain. This eTerror punch was equivalent to a minimum of 150 T1 super-fast Internet connections meant for up to 10,000 customers, each at maximum burst. According to two engineers at the Jew Watch ISP Headquarters, the real number of T1 connections aimed at www.jewwatch.com may have been in the thousands.
After remaining offline for approximately 22 hours to ensure that the attack had ended, the IP addresses were ungrounded by AOL Time Warner and the connections to the Internet's most popular news and research site for information on world Jewry was re-established. Jew Watch’s Internet connection was restored at approximately 4:15PM on Tuesday, July 27, 2004.
Frank Weltner is the Director and Librarian of www.jewwatch.com
http://www.jewwatch.com (http://www.jewwatch.com/)
http://www.couchpower.com (http://www.couchpower.com/)