Cyberattacks smite Australian atheist websites

Australian atheists are under attack, with the websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention knocked offline in a major cyber attack yesterday afternoon.The “distributed denial of service” attacks flooded the websites with traffic, forcing them offline about 5.20pm yesterday.As of this morning, the foundation had still not been able to restore the websites.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/cyber-attacks-smite-atheist-websites-20091021-h7ul.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/2986946/
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/security/cyber-attacks-smite-atheist-websites-20091021-h7ul.html

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