CNN reports on the DDOS of cnn.com.

A CNN spokesman said the Web site began to notice problems around midday Thursday and took measures to isolate the trouble by limiting the number of users who could access it from specific geographic areas.

As a result, he said, some users in those areas experienced temporary slowdowns or problems accessing the site.

According to the story at computer world australia it was supposed to be scheduled for today, the 19th, but...

While there is no apparent link between Anti-CNN and the hackers calling for the Denial of Service attack, the team at The Dark Visitor, who have been tracking Chinese hacking activity for some time, believe that it may be members of the Red Hacker Alliance that are pushing for the online attack to accompany the physical demonstrations.

According to Scott Henderson, administrator for The Dark Visitor, members of The Red Alliance have traditionally required very little in terms of direct motivation to launch politically motivated attacks against external sites. The Dark Visitor researchers have associated politically motivated attacks from this group against sites in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia.

Over at the Dark Visitor, the story is the DDOS was called off after becoming too public.

The Chinese hacker group that has been organizing to attack CNN has been identified as the “Revenge of the Flame.” They recently released a statement calling off the DDoS attack on CNN; however, it may have come too late to stop some of its members from going after the site.

I don't think this patriotic djinn is going back in to the bottle with a simple wave of the hand or statement by some group, be they a hacker group or Xinhua. (Though it would seem the folks at the top of the CCP are quite happy with having the Red Guards running amok as long as they adhere to Mao's the factionally-balanced CCP leadership.)