Attack Shuts Down `New York Times' Website Hacking!!!

More than twelve hours once it absolutely was attacked, the the big apple Times web site remained inaccessible early Wednesday morning.
The outage was the apparent results of a malicious attack on the company's name registrar.

People on Twitter began reportage the positioning was down as early as three p.m. ET Tuesday. Some users additionally rumored issue accessing the Times' mobile website and apps.
The newspaper announce a message on its Facebook page concerning five p.m. ET that aforementioned, "Many users square measure having issue accessing The the big apple Times on-line. we have a tendency to square measure operating to mend the matter. Our initial assessment is that the outage is presumably the results of a malicious external attack."
New York Times chief info officer brandy Frons sent a similar update internally to staff at 4:20 p.m. and suggested them to not channelise sensitive emails "until this case is resolved," in keeping with an announcement from the the big apple Times. The outage was the results of AN attack on the company's name registrar, Melbourne IT.
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Frons aforementioned the attack was the work of "the Syrian Electronic Army or somebody attempting terribly exhausting to be them," in keeping with the the big apple Times. The Syrian Electronic Army may be a cluster of hackers aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Security threat man of science Matt Johansen of White Hat Security aforementioned on Twitter that he suspected the attack was the work of the Syrian Electronic Army.
Several Twitter users announce screenshots of a "Hacked by SEA" message they aforementioned they received once they visited the the big apple Times homepage.
The Syrian Electronic Army has oftentimes targeted the U.S. news media. The cluster has hacked into the Twitter feeds of the Associated Press and also the Washington Post, and on Assumption of Mary they shortly hacked the websites of many major news organizations, as well as CNN, redirecting them to a ocean page.
Frons aforementioned Tuesday's attack was additional subtle than previous ocean hacks.
"It's style of like breaking into the native savings and loan versus breaking into Fort theologist. a website registrar ought to have very tight security as a result of they're holding the protection to a whole bunch if not thousands of websites," aforementioned Frons within the the big apple Times.
While the positioning was down, the the big apple Times continuing to post articles at its numerical scientific discipline address, 170.149.168.130 and at news.nytco.com.
Tuesday's episode was the Times' second sustained web site outage this month. The newspaper's website additionally went down August fourteen for many hours, AN outage the newspaper darned on "an internal issue."
A Twitter account claiming to be a politician account of the ocean tweeted that it had additionally hacked the web registries for Twitter and also the Huffington Post's kingdom website. The account later announce that its own ocean domain was suspended for violating its registration agreement.
In AN update on an organization diary, Twitter confirmed that there was a DNS issue with one among the domains wont to host pictures. "Viewing of pictures and photos was periodically compact. By 22:29 Greenwich Time, the initial domain record for twimg.com was fixed. No Twitter user info was laid low with this incident," aforementioned the post.