http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6044030.html?tag=mn_hd By CNET News.com Staff May 25, 2001, 9:40 a.m. PT The White House Web site has been hit by its third denial of service attack this month, rendering the site inaccessible for more than six hours on Tuesday. The hacker attempt on the whitehouse.gov domain, which crashed the site, lasted from 11 a.m. until after 5 p.m. PDT Tuesday. The White House confirmed that the barrage of page requests created through the attack was "heavy enough to block most legitimate users." On May 4, the White House.gov site was down for more than three hours due to a similar attack, purported to be linked to a string of Web site hacks and defacements organized by Chinese and pro-Chinese Internet vandals during the first week of May. The Hackers Union of China admitted responsibility for numerous attacks on U.S. government and commercial sites at the start of May. It has not been confirmed whether the same group was behind Tuesday's attack. Staff writer Wendy McAuliffe reported from London. ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email isn-unsubscribeat_private
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