Could be a busy weekend

Story on Computerworld this morning warns of possible DDOS attack for CNN.com this weekend.

nationalistic Chinese hackers have issued a call for a distributed denial of service attack against CNN to coincide with the street protests

This story mentions the reason – “the basis of the attack appears to be the recent, and very public, pro-Tibet coverage in Western media organizations. “  Not mentioned are the comments that Jack Cafferty made recently on air.

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