{"id":798,"date":"2016-01-02T18:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T10:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/02\/group-says-bbc-website-hack-was-a-test-for-attack-on-isis\/"},"modified":"2016-01-02T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T10:57:22","slug":"group-says-bbc-website-hack-was-a-test-for-attack-on-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/02\/group-says-bbc-website-hack-was-a-test-for-attack-on-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Group says BBC website hack was a test for attack on ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON \u2014 A group called New World Hacking has claimed responsibility for an attack<\/a> that brought down the BBC’s website for several hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The group says it goes after Islamic State (ISIS) online activity, but carried out the BBC attack to test its capabilities. A BBC source said it was a “distributed denial of service” (DDOS) attack, in which a target is bombarded with traffic from multiple sources to try and overwhelm it.<\/p>\n

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See also: The BBC website was attacked and the Internet thought the world had ended<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“It was only a test, we didn’t exactly plan to take it down for multiple hours. Our servers are quite strong,” the group said<\/a>, according to the BBC. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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LONDON \u2014 A group called New World Hacking has claimed responsibility for an attack that brought down the BBC’s website for several hours on Thursday. The group says it goes after Islamic State (ISIS) online activity, but carried out the … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,248,249,1,41,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-hacking","category-new-world-hacking","category-other","category-uk","category-us-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}