"The Mail & Guardian's website is nether sustained assault past times hackers. We are dealing amongst the problem, simply to brand absolutely certain that your safety isn't compromised, nosotros receive got decided to suspend the service temporarily," it announced on its website.
More data volition last released equally it becomes available.
In 2010, several authorities websites were hacked, including the website of the National Prosecuting Authority too equally Internet access provider MWEB.
"I don't mean value South African websites inwards detail are existence targeted, simply this 1 may last a detail group," HackingStats.com CEO Rian Visser told News24.
"The big hackers weren't behind this attack," he added.
Server attack
Visser said that the Mail & Guardian website was hosted past times an American server that was the acre of written report of the attack.
"M&G is hosted on the American server UltraDNS in addition to they receive got been acre of written report to a massive amount of attacks terminal year.
"Hackers assault a specific server in addition to that could receive got been the M&G one," Visser added.
H5N1 global co-operative Conflicker Working Group has announced that it had successfully reduced the threat from the Conflicker meshing worm, simply on Midweek reckoner safety trace of piece of employment solid Kaspersky Lab warned that a novel worm was exploiting Google's goo.gl service of truncated links.
This allowed users to last directed to an infected site where the user is prompted to download a malicious plan which could thus spread in addition to infect other computers.
"However, shortened links tin hand the sack seriously threaten reckoner security, because the text of a truncated URL is relatively obscure in addition to a user does non know what it contains prior to ending upwards on an infected site. Hackers are managing to successfully lure the unwary into using their malicious truncated links," Kaspersky Lab said inwards a statement.
Mail & Guardian's online editor Chris Roper explained why the site was taken down: "Rather than compromise security, we've done a surgical takedown in addition to redeploy the site. There was big fence inwards the society over how nosotros should bargain amongst it. Ultimately nosotros decided to receive got the knock directly in addition to kicking the bucket for a secure site inwards the future."
There is no discussion on when the Mail & Guardian website volition last dorsum online.
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