Source: New York Times website hit by a cyber attack

[CTyankee]

Source: Fox Business

Developing: The corporate and media sites of The New York Times (NYT) were experiencing a cyber attack on Wednesday afternoon, according to a source close to the matter.

The source, who asked not to be named due to the sensitive nature of the issue, said the newspaper has been huddling with outside security professionals to assess the threat.

On its official Twitter account, the New York Times said it was “experiencing technical difficulties.”

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/08/14/new-york-times-site-experiences-major-outage/#ixzz2bxnpoLj4


Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/08/14/new-york-times-site-experiences-major-outage/

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I had to google NYTimes in order to figure out what was going on...

[darkangel218]

1. Their website is still down.

[CTyankee]

2. Altho the Times is downplaying it a bit, I agree with your scared smilie...

[tarheelsunc]

3. Someone must have reached their 10-article monthly limit and become angry. eom

[CTyankee]

4. It kinda freaked me out...

[Berlum]

5. "All the news that's fit to attack" - Evil Doers

the really weird thing is I just landed on Rush 'DraftDodger' Limbaugh's blovicast (R) a few minutes ago while out driving, and he was PRAISING the NYT and loving them up because they did a story on the Clinton Foundation. "I could be the editor of the Times," spewed the overpaid, drug-addicted, draft-dodging, misogynist Republican chickenhawk Propaganda Pimp.

[scooter rider]

9. Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh?

Here's where he got that.

An internal review of the Clinton Foundations' workings has proved troubling
Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation – that vast vanity project that conservatives are wary of criticising for being seen to attack a body that tries to do good. But the liberal NYT has no such scruples. The killer quote is this:
For all of its successes, the Clinton Foundation had become a sprawling concern, supervised by a rotating board of old Clinton hands, vulnerable to distraction and threatened by conflicts of interest. It ran multimillion-dollar deficits for several years, despite vast amounts of money flowing in.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100231113/the-new-york-times-takes-down-the-clinton-foundation-this-could-be-devastating-for-bill-and-hillary/

[Berlum]

10. Draft Dodger Limbaugh luvs flinging the poo

He's probably gulping down some extra oxycontin to help him 'enjoy' this moment.

[karynnj]

16. The article is far too literate and thoughtful for Limbaugh and worth reading

I hope Hillary takes the advise they are tacitly giving her. Remember the NYT has LOVED Hillary since at least 1992 - and has from soon after that year spoken of her as a possible President long before others.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/us/politics/unease-at-clinton-foundation-over-finances-and-ambitions.html?pagewanted=3&_r=0&comments

[enough]

6. Times site working normally for me now. (nt)

[darkangel218]

7. Yup, its back on.

[CTyankee]

8. That was bizarre...

I don't think I've ever seen their website go down...

[spooky3]

11. is it down again? I just clicked on a link in a NYTimes email sent to subscribers

and got an error.

[darkangel218]

12. It looks more and more like a cyber attack

[uhnope]

13. DEBUNKED: It wasn't an attack. That's what you get with FOX

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/business/media/to-our-customers.html

As you may know, our Web site was unavailable for a period of time earlier today. The outage occurred within seconds of a scheduled maintenance update, which we believe was the cause. We are working on fully restoring service and apologize for any inconvenience.

[CTyankee]

14. Oh, no!

You are right. I shudda never believed Fox....

[ConcernedCanuk]

17. "I shudda never believed Fox"

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yep -

there's a reason it got a nickname of Faux News.

Faux is a French word for "false"

Go figure

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[LiberalElite]

15. okaaay but

How many businesses do scheduled maintenance during the day? Where I work it's done at night and/or weekends.

[ConcernedCanuk]

18. Our hydro does it during the day . .

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