Does anyone know any of the technical details yet? Was it a DNS hijack or a full server hack?
This appears to have only affected the Arabic version of Aljazeera, not the global English version. Interestingly, it looks like the two sites are running different stacks. The Arabic version appears to be behind a CDN/load-balancer on Linux ("Footprint Distributor V4.8") while the English version is running IIS 6.0 on Windows.
This appears to have only affected the Arabic version of Aljazeera, not the global English version. Interestingly, it looks like the two sites are running different stacks. The Arabic version appears to be behind a CDN/load-balancer on Linux ("Footprint Distributor V4.8") while the English version is running IIS 6.0 on Windows.
Aljazeera.com: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.aljaz...
Aljazeera.net: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.aljaz...