Alternative sites for Sarawak Report

Sarawak Report still under cyber attack

After a heavy cyber attacks since Friday, two alternative sites for Sarawak Report have been made available, a mirror blog at WordPress, and a mirror server for the blog postings. The main site is still accessible, but the alternative sites are available in case the main site is knocked out again. Sarawak Report has also made its entire content available for download (88Mb zip file) for anyone to set up a mirror site on their own servers.

» Sarawak Report articles at WordPress
» Mirror server for the blog feed

Updates on Facebook, Twitter

» Short posts on Facebook | Updates at Twitter
The official Sarawak Report feed at Twitter is at http://twitter.com/sarawak_report. There is another feed at twitter.com/sarawakreport but this is a private feed by a fan

» Download the whole Sarawak Report web site [88 megabytes]

by Sarawak Report
We are now making the whole of Sarawak Report available as a download. Please download this zip file. It contains all reports up to a few days ago in English, Iban & Malay. Feel free to upload this to a webserver near you. There may be broken links and missing images throughout. » Download
http://sarawak.s3.amazonaws.com/sarawakreport.org.zip

Alternative sites for MalaysiaKini news reports (free)

How to read MalaysiaKini’s news reports

(Free until normal service resumes)

» MalaysiaKini at WordPress | » MalaysiaKini at Blogspot

» News articles on Facebook | » MalaysiaKini updates on Twitter

Malaysiakini down, mirror site on WordPress, Blogspot and Facebook

UPDATE 27 APRIL 2012: Malaysiakini alternative sites

http://ww1.malaysiakini.com
http://ww1.malaysiakini.com

These links below are outdated

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Twitter suspends MalaysiaKini

No reason was stated.

How to read MalaysiaKini’s news reports

(Free until normal service resumes)
These links are now dead 27 April 2012
» MalaysiaKini at WordPress | » articles at Blogspot | at » articles Facebook
» MalaysiaKini’s updates on Twitter

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13 April 2011

Malaysiakini down, hit by cyber attacks
by MalaysiaKini

A cyber attack beginning at 11am [Tuesday] shut down Malaysiakini servers simultaneously, making the website inaccessible to readers.

The Malaysiakini technical team has determined it to be a denial-of-service attack, where an attacker uses computers in different parts of the world to swarm Malaysiakini servers to the point that they are unable to cope with the massive traffic.

Both our servers, which are hosted at two data centres – TM Brickfields and Jaring – have been affected by the attack.

Malaysiakini has posted all of today’s reports in Facebook. Readers can access Malaysiakini in full via Facebook Notes. We will soon be making our reports, especially those on the Sarawak election, available on WordPress, Blogspot and other publishing platforms.

Malaysiakini is also working to bring up a new set of servers.

We apologise for the technical problem and we will keep readers informed of developments via Facebook and Twitter.

Similar to attacks on ‘Sarawak Report’

The attack on Malaysiakini came three days after Sarawak Report, a website which has been critical of Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud, was shut down by a similar assault. According to site founder Clare Rewcastle Brown, the attacks has been building up with interruptions over the past week, culminating in a concerted attack over the weekend.

She explained that web experts said it was a distributed denial of service attack – the type that brought down Wikileaks at one time. In a DOS attack, multiple bots, or programmes running on servers or personal computers in different countries are used to bombard a site’s server with multiple requests to view the site.

The ‘bots’ will repeat the request for data so many times they flood the server, beyond its ability to respond.

Sarawak Report up again, Anil goes down

Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak were both up last night after suffering a massive denial-of-service attack on its servers on Friday. However, Sarawak Report’s server produced different pages when accessed through proxy or directly. The proxy access served up the front page from Friday, while direct access (without using a proxy) resulted in Sunday’s front page featuring contrasting photos of the political rallies in Miri.

Getting access to Malaysia Today (revised)

Three ways to read MT if it’s blocked

1. Try using a proxy server
2. Try using Google cache
3. Try a mirror blog

Cyberwar continues after RPK exposés

[100910T02:30Z] Malaysia Today was back online for several hours from about 03:00 but has since been only intermittently available; Free Malaysia Today was back from about 22:00 last night and remained up.

[090910T1530Z] A continuing cyber-attack left Malaysia Today unavailable again, all day (Thursday) after a day’s respite. Another site, Free Malaysia Today, also came under attack from a distributed denial-of-service in which hundreds or thousands of computers hammer the site with simultaneous repeated requests, thus denying access to other users.

The blogs of two Pakatan Rakyat leaders, Anwar Ibrahim and Zaid Ibrahim, also suffered attacks.

However, Malaysia Today’s technical team discounted rumours that Malaysian authorities had ordered internet providers to place a block on the site (as happened a year ago this month). They said there had not been any noticeable change in traffic patterns.

The cyber attack on Malaysia Today seems to be linked to the legal battle between MAS and Tajuddin Ramli, its onetime owner, over RM8 billion in losses incurred during his tenure. Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin has posted confidential documents exposing background to the deal.

On Wednesday, when the site was restored after an initial attack the previous day, Raja Petra Kamarudin posted images of documents about a RM500 million counter-suit filed by Tajuddin Ramli against the national airline MAS. He also taunted Tajuddin Ramli and the authorities that he had sources in high places and would continue to expose the linkages that hold Umno Inc together.

RPK also said that Tajuddin Ramli’s counter-suit was a challenge to Umno leaders, that Tajuddin was showing he was prepared to expose all those involved in the wheeling and dealing behind the many businesses in the Umno empire.

The MAS action against Tajuddin Ramli is viewed as a sign that Umno president Najib Tun Razak is standing up to Mahathir Mohamad, in whose government many questionable business deals took place as part of his agenda to create instant Malay billionaires. Tajuddin Ramli and Halim Saad of Renong, UEM and PLUS were the most prominent of those businessmen.

» New RPK scoop, more site problems at MT

» Malaysia Today and the battle of Umno’s billions

» Malaysia Today server down after attack

» Free Malaysia Today also attacked

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