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SA News website hacked for supporting Mugabe
12 Jun 2013 at 19:10hrs | Views
A South African Newspapers, IOL was on Wednesday reportedly attacked by hackers for supporting President Robert Mugabe.
Apparently the website was hit by DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack.
The online publication published a story that was in support of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe for "ignoring the genocide against the Ndebele people and for supporting a dictator."
The attack was announced by Anonymous Africa on Twitter. On MyBroadband's forum, it was described "as a hacktivist protest against the article, 'Mugabe hero of African liberation' on iol.co.za. AnonAfrica will be taking down iol.co.za with a DoS attack".
The hacktivist, @zim4thewin tweeted this:
IOL posted this on their Facebook page:
IOL is having problems! We're aware that the site is down, and we're working hard to get it back up again… bear with us.
Apparently the website was hit by DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack.
The online publication published a story that was in support of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe for "ignoring the genocide against the Ndebele people and for supporting a dictator."
The attack was announced by Anonymous Africa on Twitter. On MyBroadband's forum, it was described "as a hacktivist protest against the article, 'Mugabe hero of African liberation' on iol.co.za. AnonAfrica will be taking down iol.co.za with a DoS attack".
IOL posted this on their Facebook page:
IOL is having problems! We're aware that the site is down, and we're working hard to get it back up again… bear with us.
Source - 2oceansvibe.com
