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Call to choke Arab media websites
A Danish chain e-mail is urging people to take part in an attack on the websites of major Arab media, including Gulf News.
- Gulf News Report
- Published: 23:32 May 3, 2009
Dubai: A Danish chain e-mail is urging people to take part in an attack on the websites of major Arab media, including Gulf News.
The Jawa Report website says the mail is in retaliation to the hacker attack on Danish newspapers' websites over the last few days. The e-mail starts with a headline 'Denmark under attack by Muslim hackers'. The attached program starts a 'so-called denial of service' attack on five Arab media, including Al Jazeera and Gulf News.
Recipients of the e-mail are asked to let the program run on their computers to bombard the Arab media with data and thus block their homepages. The call to attack Gulf News's website follows the newspaper's coverage of the controversy surrounding Jyllands-Posten's publication of offensive cartoons of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
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