Newsweek suspects hackers crashed website because of negative Trump article

[applegrove]

By KELSEY SUTTON at Politico

http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/09/newsweek-suspects-hackers-crashed-website-because-of-negative-trump-article-004788

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Newsweek suspects that hackers are to blame for the crash of its website on Thursday night, after it published an article about Donald Trump’s company secretly conducting business in Cuba in the 1990s.

"We don't know everything. We're still investigating," Newsweek editor in chief Jim Impoco told POLITICO. "But it was a massive DDoS attack, and it took place in the early evening just as prominent cable news programs were discussing Kurt Eichenwald's explosive investigation into how Donald Trump's company broke the law by breaking the United States embargo against Cuba."

A DDoS attack, or distributed denial of service attack, is when an attacker attempts to overwhelm a website or server with traffic, rendering it unable to function reliably.

As of Friday afternoon, Impoco told POLITICO that the main IP addresses involved in the hack were Russian, but that there was "nothing definitive" about the ongoing investigation.


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[PJMcK]

1. Gee, ya think that's what it was?

They've already made clear that there were Russian IP's involved.

How about increasing our cyber-security? (As if that's so easy.)

[Foggyhill]

4. This was a denial of service attack, they're very hard to contain except if your a big operator

I can create one in jiffy, doesn't take much effort, just a lot of computers (or IOT devices) that are not necessarily mine...

[PJMcK]

5. Yeah, I know

My attempt at snark was limited to my parenthetical observation.

The fact is, news organizations make it easy to access their sites because they want clicks. This opens them up to mischief.

[tonyt53]

2. Those damned Ruskies are at it again

[ffr]

3. That must be the other reason Donald was up all night

Talking to the communist dictator at the Kremlin, Putin.