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Attack on King World News site meant to shut it down

posted on Apr 02, 2010 06:25PM

first the whistleblower is hit by a car, then all of bill murphy's planned tv interviews are canceled, and now hackers shut down king world news. i think the testimony at the cftc hearing must have hit a nerve somewhere:

King World News today received more detail about yesterday's attack on its Internet site, which happened soon after the posting of Eric King's half-hour interview with GATA Chairman Bill Murphy, board member Adrian Douglas, and your secretary/treasurer about last week's hearing of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The major Internet hosting company that maintains the King World News site reported to King World News: "Your hosting account is the target of a distributed denial of service attack. To protect the network resources, we have temporarily placed your Web site behind a network filter. Once the attack has ended, service will be restored to normal. ... Computers were attacking your account."