The below report describes the attack on Geo News servers. [But here is an alternative to watch GEO TV Live at www.alqamar.org
Here the live stream for GEO is at: http://tinyurl.com/376e8j
Dawn News is available at:
mms://dawn.tvpakistan.com/dawnnews]
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Geo News website under Dos attack
Updated at 2040 PST
KARACHI: The website of Geo News became inoperative, after it came under Denial of Service (DoS) attack at 2035 on Friday. Geo website, which is an important means of keeping in touch with Geo News telecast, went off under the attack.
DoS attack means that millions of hits are artificially made to strike a website in such a manner that even a very powerful computer sever is left unable to cope with the artificially boosted hits’ traffic.
It should be mentioned that Geo website became inactive sometime back when President Musharraf imposed the emergency in the country. Afterwards, new and more powerful severs were employed to host Geo.tv website. However, it is the second time after the imposition of emergency that Geo News most powerful servers broke down.
Geo News software engineers are putting in their best efforts to make available the website of Geo News as soon as possible.
It should be noted that after November 3 emergency, all electronic media have been closed in Pakistan; the Internet is the only source of information for the people of Pakistan to keep informed.
