International Medical Travel Journal Hit by Unprecedented Denial of Service Attack

London, United Kingdom, October 29, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Online medical tourism and medical travel publication, International Medical Travel Journal (www.imtjonline.com), has been targeted by a Denial of Service attack. (A Denial of Service attack is an attempt to make a web site unavailable to web users).

International Medical Travel Journal provides information for the medical tourism and medical travel industry and is managed by Intuition Communication, a UK web publishing company.

Intuition Communication owns and operates twenty web sites in the healthcare sector. The Denial of Service attack was targeted specifically at International Medical Travel Journal rather than the company’s hosted servers as a whole. It is the first concerted attack of this nature that the company has faced in its web publishing history.

The company’s technical support team has identified the origin of the attack; servers using IP addresses in the Ivory Coast were used to launch the attack. However, they are unable to identify the sponsor of the attack at this stage. Additional security measures have been introduced to block any future attacks on the company’s web sites.

Under UK law, it is an offence to launch a Denial of Service Attack; the offence is punishable by up to ten years in prison.

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