via Netcraft by Paul Mutton on 2/2/11
Renesys earlier confirmed that Egyptian internet providers had returned to the internet just before 09:30 UTC; however, a few important sites mysteriously went back offline a short while later. www.mcit.gov.eg came online for a brief period, but then went offline again less than an hour later:
Before Egypt shut down internet access, the online collective Anonymous had been carrying out a distributed denial of service attack against this site; however, that attack did not appear to succeed at the time. Meanwhile, www.egypt.gov.eg has been online solidly since Egypt returned to the internet, whereas www.moiegypt.gov.eg has been coming and going:
This site was also attacked as part of an online protest by Anonymous, which resulted in some short outages on 26th January. A tweet from AnonymousIRC suggests that this site may be being kept offline by a second DDoS attack:
We are continuing to monitor the performance of several Egyptian sites at http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/performance/wikileaks
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