Syrian website hacked New York Times
Hackers from the group "Syrian Electronic Army", which supports the Syrian government, claimed responsibility for hacking the site of the American newspaper New York Times. They stated on his page on the microblogging network Twitter. According to the news agency ITAR-TASS, the failure of the life emerged on Tuesday at about 15:00 on the East Coast of the USA (23:00 MSK) and continues to this day. When trying to enter the site www.nytimes.com error message. However, some users have reported that they have on the screen "pops" message "hacked" Syrian electronic army.
" According to experts, the site of the newspaper has undergone DDoS-attack that displays the time on computer servers out of action by increasing the load on them and infection virus programs. "Currently, experts are engaged in eliminating the problem," - said the representative of the newspaper Eileen Murphy. Problems with the site appear in one of America's leading media for the second time in the last two weeks: 14 August due to technical problems, and web page mobile applications, "New York Times" were unavailable for about two hours.
"Syrian Electronic Army" has repeatedly claimed responsibility for the hacking of websites of influential media and their accounts in microblogging Twitter. groups affected by agency actions and AP France Presse, TV France 24, Financial Times, the Broadcasting Corporation BBC. Updated on 7:00 MSK: domain registrar Melbourne IT said that the NYTimes site hacking conducted by obtaining control over the account in the management of domains. nytimes.com domain name is serviced by Melbourne IT. company also claims that hacking was carried out not by them directly, but through compromise of systems of one of the resellers whose name was not called.
"We are now engaged in the study of the situation," - said the Melbourne IT. Updated on 7:10 MSK: In response to the unavailability of the website New York Times newspaper The Wall Street Journal is temporarily withdrew system paid subscription to your articles, having made free to all users of the resource. Recall that the last time during the attack on the NY Times, WSJ acted in the same way .
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