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SUNDAY January 29, 2012
Family oF man
struck my rosewood:
“we need help”
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cyber
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Independent
The
SUNDAY January 29, 2012
Family oF man
struck my rosewood:
“we need help”
ISSUE NO: 12 PRICE: $1.
00 www.
facebook.
com/ The Independent
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cyber
attack
shuts
down
Belize
web site
Belizean
terrorist?
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Kid gloves for the
well connected?
an artist:
creator of
their own
universe
weekend
warriors
Tuesday, January 25th,
2012
SAN PEDRO TOWN:
Ambergriscaye.
com, Belize’s
premier travel website has
been the victim of a cyber
attack that temporarily shut
down the site completely.
The DOS (Denial Of Service) attack targets a website
by flooding their server with
so many requests for service that the server crashes
under the load.
This attack
started about two weeks ago
and was countered and escalated until on Monday the
calls for service took down a
large portion of Viawest, the
server company and ambergriscaye.
com went off line.
Ambergriscaye.
com is a
major site with over 10,000
unique vi
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