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RE: NY times appears to have had a rough morning..

  • From: Tracy Snell
  • Date: Sun Sep 13 12:25:12 1998 
Actually they were hacked by a group calling themselves HFG. The correct
website was restored several times only to be overwritten by the hacked
version minutes later. The hacked page talked about cron jobs, I imagine
they hacked one in to keep putting the hacked web page up.

Looks like they finally gave up and took down the server to fix it.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of
> Phil Howard
> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 1998 10:51 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: NY times appears to have had a rough morning..
>
>
> Richard Irving wrote:
>
> > Hrmm.. This sunday am I logged into www.nytimes.com,
> > and got an unusual front page. Someone may want to take
> > a look......
>
> Looks like the classical underconfigured/overloaded server to me.
>  They were
> probably running with not much spare capacity before, or didn't
> configure the
> correct number of listening processes (or enough RAM to handle them).
>
> Possibly a SYN attack.  But on this date, more likely a demand "attack".
>
> This is not unusual when you consider the total capacity is ultimately
> determined by the suits.
>
> FYI, I had no trouble pulling it from icreport.loc.gov.  I got it in the
> evening, which would have been the 2nd demand curve for the day.
> So server
> capacity there was enough to deliver it in that probably broader
> hump.  But
> maybe the masses, who normally go checking news sites and
> wouldn't recognize
> a .gov site as even being an Internet thing, were clobbering places like
> www.nytimes.com.  Even www.cnn.com seemed kinda slow to me.
>
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