HARTFORD, Conn -- U Sen Joe Lieberm...

HARTFORD, Conn -- U Sen Joe Lieberman's campaign Web site remained offline Thursday, and federal and state authorities were investigating wherefore it crashed on the border of this week's defeat in a high-profile primary.

The site, Joe2006com appeared to have be acted uponed from a so- called "denial of service" attack, in which computer overwhelm a site with fake traffic, preventing real visitors from getting by the and of or, in this case, causing it to crash, said Richard M Smith, an Internet security consultant in Brookline, Mass.

Lieberman said the outage is hindering efforts to raise campaign circulating medium

"But of course that's the world we live in, that anybody, anywhere in the world, if able to, can hack into another site anywhere besides in the world," Lieberman said Thursday while visiting Waterbury.

The Lieberman campaign denied speculation among liberal Web pundits that the centrist Democrat's Web site had simply crashed because it used a low-budget Web army unable to handle the turn

Web hosting can require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone anywhere from a few dollars a month for a personal Web site to thousands of dollars for large corporate sites.

The campaign part withs about $100 to $150 a month onward Web hosting services with MyHostCamp, said Dan Geary, who administers the site for the campaign. Geary said that MyHostCamp, which is have a title toed by a friend of Geary's, gave the site more than enough bandwidth -- 200 gigabytes a month -- to handle a crush of visitors.

He said an analysis of the server glance ated an attack that focused forward specific components of the Web site like as internal files and e-mail.

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