Hacked New York Times website still down; alternate site working
Last edited Wed Aug 28, 2013, 02:09 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: LA Times
The New York Times' website was experiencing widespread outages Tuesday afternoon as the apparent result of a malicious attack on the company's domain name registrar.
By Alana Semuels and Jim Puzzanghera
August 28, 2013, 6:19 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- Its a battle between one of the nations largest newspapers and what is suspected to be a group of hackers supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad, and for the moment at least, the hackers appear to be winning.
The New York Times website was down for large parts of Tuesday after being hacked in an attack for which the group known as the Syrian Electronic Army took credit, and was down again as of 9 a.m. EDT Wednesday.
Users trying to access www.nytimes.com received a message saying the server could not be found. The news organization set up a bare-bones alternate site, where readers could view some news stories. A message on the New York Times Twitter feed directed readers to that site and routed story links posted on Twitter there as well.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-new-york-times-website-syria-hackers-20130828,0,2245108.story
I was wondering what was going on, since it is my homepage, and wouldn't load either yesterday or today.
Just an FYI.
Edited to add their alternate site...
http://news.nytco.com/
FourScore
(9,704 posts)First my firewall went nuts saying it was blocking all kinds of viruses (at least 40-50 came up). I unplugged the internet, and when I went back on, I can't access facebook.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Syrian Electronic Army????????
Are we supposed to believe that it isn't our own people? I am totally skeptic when it comes to our government.
Why would any Syrians be interested in the NY Times, but not interested in Fox News or CNN?
This does not seem plausible to me. Any group can take the name Syrian Electronic Army.
no_hypocrisy
(45,786 posts)adirondacker
(2,921 posts)Ironically, I would pay the subscription if I could afford it. :/