Information Security News: DoS attacks on NHL web site

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NEW YORK (AP) -- NHL officials are trying to find who disabled the
league's official Web site.

Tom Richardson, general manager of the NHL's Interactive Cyber
Enterprises (ICE), said today it was uncertain if one or more hackers
had gotten into the site, NHL.com.

"It's a very serious situation," he said. "We are taking all steps
necessary to get to the bottom of this and find the culprit or
culprits.

"We are in the midst of our playoffs, and we are very disappointed
that this has happened at such an inopportune time.

"We have notified authorities to try and filter out the bogus
requests."

Problem detected Monday

Richardson said the problem was discovered Monday.

"At some point Sunday, there was a distributed denial of service," he
said. "Someone was flooding the pipeline with bogus requests through
distributed PCs. The whole system was overloaded [with millions of Web
page requests]. But the Internet was not compromised.

"We had spotty service yesterday, and it's continuing today. We're
still trying to fix it."

The situation is similar to the problems that affected Yahoo, eBay,
E*Trade, CNN, Amazon.com and other leading Web sites in February.


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