Technology correspondent receives tweet from US-based New Word Hacking saying attack was to test group’s servers
Activists who say their goal is to disrupt online propaganda by Islamic State maintain claimed responsibility for a cyber-attack on the BBC website. The New Year’s Eve attack took down the iPlayer and other services for a few hours,according to Joe Lynam, the BBC’s trade correspondent. Related: BBC hit by widespread outages taking website and iPlayer offline Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com