e.politics: online advocacy tools & tactics

I’m Psychic! Evidence of a DDoS Attack in a Senate Race

The website of Republican Mike Bouchard, running against Debbie Stabenow for Senate in Michigan, claims that his campaign has been the victim of a distributed denial of services attack and names the IP numbers that seem to be the source. Here’s a screenshot of his replacement site front page as of 9 p.m. Eastern, with basic information about the attack.

Update: the FBI is investigating it.

– cpd

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An Election Day Dirty Trick to Watch For: Distributed Denial-Of-Service Attacks

I’m leaving blow-by-blow coverage of election results to the approximately one million sites that will be looking at them in detail all through the night, but in the true spirit of election day, here’s a really nasty trick to consider. As an article by Scott Berinato in this month’s Wired magazine describes, distributed denial-of-service attacks can shut down the web servers of companies and organizations within minutes, even if they’ve taken measures to protect themselves.

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