{"id":80229,"date":"2013-06-14T09:59:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T07:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=80229"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T12:15:51","slug":"anc-website-going-down-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/80229-anc-website-going-down-anonymous.html","title":{"rendered":"ANC website going down: Anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hacker activist, or &#8220;hacktivist&#8221;, who took responsibility for the downtime of the Independent Online (IOL) website, Anonymous Africa, has announced on Twitter that it will be taking the ANC website offline at 10:00 today (14 June 2013).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we shall be hitting one of the biggest enablers of the mass murdering Mugabe. The ANC\u2026\u201d stated Anonymous Africa, who goes by @zim4thewin on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>In response to questions on the intended target, the hacktivist said they would be taking down the <a href=\"http:\/\/anc.org.za\" target=\"_blank\">main ANC website<\/a> using a \u201cTsunami DDoS [distributed denial-of-service]\u201d attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> As of 10:00, the ANC website is offline. &#8220;anc.org.za is tango down! \u00a0for being corrupt and supporting the mass murdering mugabe,&#8221; Anonymous Africa tweeted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80233\" style=\"width: 547px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80233\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80233\" alt=\"Anonymous Africa ANC website downtime tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Anonymous-Africa-ANC-website-downtime.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"255\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-80233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anonymous Africa ANC website downtime tweet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Numerous attempts to connect to the ANC website shortly after 10:00 proved fruitless. \u00a0The following screenshot displayed what users trying to access to ANC.org.za were met with.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80237\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ANC-website-at-shortly-after-10AM-on-Friday-14-June-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80237\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80237\" alt=\"ANC website shortly after-10AM on Friday 14 June 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ANC-website-at-shortly-after-10AM-on-Friday-14-June-2013.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ANC website shortly after 10AM on Friday 14 June 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An ANC spokesperson was not immediately available for comment regarding the attack on the organisation&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (11:38):<\/strong>\u00a0Anonymous Africa announced that it will stop the attack on the ANC website in 12 minutes, saying, &#8220;protest against the anc will stop in 12 minutes, we will be back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80253\" style=\"width: 546px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80253\" alt=\"Anonymous Africa ANC website attack stop time announcement\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Anonymous-Africa-ANC-website-attack-stop-time-announcement.jpg\" width=\"536\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Anonymous-Africa-ANC-website-attack-stop-time-announcement.jpg 536w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Anonymous-Africa-ANC-website-attack-stop-time-announcement-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-80253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anonymous Africa ANC website attack stop time announcement<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Anonymous and hacktivism in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/80075-iol-hit-by-dos-attack.html\"><strong>IOL hit by DoS attack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/78901-hacker-activist-pleads-guilty-to-us-government-hacks.html\"><strong>Hacker activist pleads guilty to US government hacks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/78516-saps-website-hacker-interviewed.html\"><strong>SAPS website hacker interviewed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/77814-spyware-servers-in-south-africa-the-plot-thickens.html\"><strong>Spyware servers in South Africa: the plot thickens<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/30120-ancyl-website-hacker-tells-all.html\"><strong>ANCYL website hacker tells all<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Anonymous Africa promised, the ANC website was taken offline today for being &#8220;one of the biggest enablers of the mass murdering 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