{"id":80075,"date":"2013-06-12T11:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=80075"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T12:17:01","slug":"iol-hit-by-dos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/80075-iol-hit-by-dos-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"IOL hit by DoS attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hacktivist group calling itself \u201cAnonymous Africa\u201d has taken down the IOL.co.za<\/a> news website through a denial of service (DoS) attack for \u201cignoring the genocide against the Ndebele people and for supporting a dictator\u201d.<\/p>\n

The hacktivist protest against IOL was announced on Twitter using the account @zim4thewin (Anonymous Africa) and on MyBroadband’s forum using the account \u201canonafrica\u201d.<\/p>\n

The hacktivist announced on MyBroadband’s forum that \u201cas a hacktivist protest against the article, \u2018Mugabe hero of African liberation\u2019 on iol.co.za. AnonAfrica will be taking down iol.co.za with a DoS attack\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to the user anonafrica this was done to \u201cprotest the glorification of this mass murdering dictator. One response for the genocide of 20,000 Ndebele. This is the African spring\u201d.<\/p>\n

The hacktivist said that the attack on IOL will start on 11:00 on 12 June 2013, and true to the threat, the IOL website went down at 11:00.<\/p>\n

“Your website is tango down for supporting the dictator Mugabe,” Anonymous Africa said on its Twitter account after the IOL website went down.<\/p>\n

\"Twitter<\/a>

Twitter comments from hacktivist<\/p><\/div>\n

IOL editor Alastair Otter said that the initial technical analysis of their downtime points towards a DoS attack.<\/p>\n

He added that they were not aware of any unhappiness because of their content before the attack, highlighting that the Twitter and MyBroadband forum announcements came very shortly before the attack.<\/p>\n

Otter explained that IOL publishes content from a variety of sources, including 14 newspapers, which means that the article which caused the unhappiness could have originated from any of these sources.<\/p>\n

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