Technology / Internet
The Herald confirms DDoS attack as hackers target Ministry of Defence's website
13 Jun 2013 at 22:35hrs | Views
The state controlled "The Herald" online website, Thursday, confirmed that it suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday afternoon.
Hackers calling themselves Anonymous Africa claimed the attack on Twitter.
On Thursday morning the hackers threatened to bring down the Ministry of Defence's website.
A DDoS attack is a form of hacker attack against a website designed to consume all of a website's resources to the point a website becomes unavailable to ordinary visitors trying to access it.
Africa Anonymous, earlier Wednesday, claimed responsibility for the attack on IOL South Africa. The organisation was accused of publishing stories in support of President Mugabe.
The group is using Twitter to send out threats to "enemies of human rights".
"In 5 minutes http://www.zimra.co.zw/ will be live again. We have decided to go after a bigger target after this, watch this space.
"In 43 minutes time we will be taking down the Zimbabwe Ministry of Defense http://www.mod.gov.zw Expect us #anonymous #africa #zimbabwe" read some of their tweets.
Hackers calling themselves Anonymous Africa claimed the attack on Twitter.
On Thursday morning the hackers threatened to bring down the Ministry of Defence's website.
A DDoS attack is a form of hacker attack against a website designed to consume all of a website's resources to the point a website becomes unavailable to ordinary visitors trying to access it.
The group is using Twitter to send out threats to "enemies of human rights".
"In 5 minutes http://www.zimra.co.zw/ will be live again. We have decided to go after a bigger target after this, watch this space.
"In 43 minutes time we will be taking down the Zimbabwe Ministry of Defense http://www.mod.gov.zw Expect us #anonymous #africa #zimbabwe" read some of their tweets.
Source - Byo24News
