Denmark subject of cyber-attacks

Most people following current affairs are probably by now aware, that a boycot of all things Danish (and Norwegian and Swedish, too, in some instances) is spreading in the ME. What hasnt been reported is, that Denmark has likewise come under cyber attack. From the paper Politiken friday:

Hacker attack paralyzed news media

A large number of Danish papers´ web versions have crashed. Suspicions immediately center on the hacker attacks being because of the Mohammed-drawings in Jyllands-Posten. ..

All the web media hit are hosted on the same servers at the internet company Metropol Online, owned by Berlingske (Danish publishing house). ..

Among the media hit is the homepage of Jyllands-Postens, www.jp.dk, which creates suspicions, that hackers are trying to hit the paper as part of the row over the papers´ Mohammed-drawings.

Casper Bruun Møller, team leader at Metropol Online, suspects, that it is a hacker attack.

"I cant say for certain, that it is an attack on jp.dk, but somebody is trying to bombard us with so many electronic requests, that we have a suspicion that it is a hacker attack", he says.

Other than Jyllands-Posten, also berlingske.dk, bt.dk, aok.dk and a number of local papers were hit by the attack, that overloaded the homepages to such an extent that they werent accessible for most of the evening. ..

Last night the media conglomerate JP/Politikens Hus, that amongst others publishes Jyllands-Posten, was also hit.

Jyllands-Posten has, for the last fourteen days, received 500-600 mails each day with content that relates directly to the 12 Mohammed-drawings, and during the night leading up to thursday, JP/Politikens Hus was hit by 75.000 spammails sent to an internal mail address.

The many mails delayed the mail systems for several hours, and the conglomerate´s IT-technicians are certain, that the many thousand mails hail from the Middle East.

And from the same paper sunday:

New hacker attack paralyzes Jyllands-Posten

The web version of Jyllands-Posten is off-line. Hackers pulled off another large attack on the website of the paper.

The web version of the paper Jyllands-Posten, www.jp.dk, has again been nocked to the ground. The web paper is under attack by hackers.

A new so-called distributed "denial of the service"-attack has hit the home page of Jyllands-Posten. The technical term means, that attackers in different parts of the world take control of computers all over the world. ..

These computers bombard the homepage with so many simultaneous requests, that it finally crashes.

So says Casper Bruun Møller, teamleader at Metropol Online, the internet company owned by Berlingske (Danish publishing house), on whose server Jyllands-Posten web version is located.

"Over the last couple days, there have been several distributed "denial of service" attacks against the homepage of Jyllands-Posten. We had a smallish attack early friday, a larger one friday evening, and not there is another attack brewing", says Casper Bruun Møller. ..

Since the attacks come from different computers all over the world, it is hard to find the source, which is why Casper Bruun Møller doesnt want to comment on, whether the attacks might be due to the papers´ Mohammed-drawings.

He says, that they currently are working on sorting out the enormous traffic directed at the site. And he hopes, that the home page will be running smoothely again later in the day.

What hasnt filtered through to the media, even the Danish one, is that the rightwing blogosphere was also hit hard by hacker attacks from the ME. The largest blog Uriasposten (still recovering - may not load for you) was taken over and defaced with amongst others a Saudi flag friday. The blog Filtrat was similarly attacked sunday, though without being defaced by arab content.

Screencaps and more on the blog-attacks shortly.

UPDATE:

As promised, and courtesy of the blog ENOUGH!, here are screencaps of the blog Uriasposten as defaced friday:

According to Islam in Europe via ENOUGH!, the text reads as follows:

First page, under a Saudi flag:

Allah the greatest and merciful Allah

Oh messenger of Allah (ie, Muhammed)

The forward infiltration is complete

Second page:

Allah the greatest and merciful Allah

Oh messenger of Allah (ie, Muhammed)

This is the simple answer for every insolence/insult to the loved one

pray to god for him and for peace

and give this infiltration and this step.. to every muslim

infiltration is over

Hacked by

The forward infiltration is complete