Editing Marxists Internet Archive (section)

===2007 attacks===
MIA has had problems with malicious attacks from online sources. Beginning in November 2006, the Marxists Internet Archive faced a number of serious [[denial-of-service attack]]s, attempting to exploit a misconfiguration in their server's operating system. By January 2007, the attacks had crippled much of the archive, and left volunteers with [[CPU]] issues.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/incidents.htm |title=Attack Log |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212133602/http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/incidents.htm |archive-date=2007-12-12 |publisher=Marxists Internet Archive |date=January 2007 |access-date=6 September 2009}}</ref> That the majority of systems involved in the attack were either in China or belonging to Chinese institutions led to speculation that the attacks may have been politically motivated and directed by the [[China|People's Republic of China]] since the website was shortly blocked in China in 2005.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Noam |last=Cohen |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/05/yourmoney/marx.php |title=Online Marxist archive blames China for electronic attacks |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207111527/http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/05/yourmoney/marx.php |archive-date=2007-02-07 |newspaper=[[International Herald Tribune]] |date=February 5, 2007}}</ref> The severity of the attack, coupled with other hosting issues, led to the closure of the Marxists Internet Archive's main server and several of its mirrors for a number of weeks in February and March 2007.