Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Voice of America Site Forced Offline By 'Iranian Cyber Army'

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @04:06PM from the those-are-not-scare-quotes dept.

angry tapir writes with this excerpt from TechWorld: "The pro-Iran hacktivist group that defaced the Baidu and Twitter Web sites a year ago has hit another target: the US Government's Voice of America news site. Voice of America was knocked offline temporarily after hackers were able to change the organization's DNS (Domain Name System) settings, redirecting Web traffic hitting Voice of America sites to another site controlled by the hackers."

3 of 93 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Iran is next by mug+funky · 2011-02-22 16:15 · Score: 1, Insightful

nice one, Iran.
you guys are next in this revolution wave thing...
Good! by Alex+Belits · 2011-02-22 16:18 · Score: 1, Insightful

US propaganda abroad -- subverting legitimate political movements to produce US puppets since WWII.

--
Contrary to the popular belief, there indeed is no God.
uhh... by mevets · 2011-02-22 17:23 · Score: 2, Insightful

The BBC is a legitimate and well respected news organization. VoA is about as close to a news organization as that Fox News Parody with Chris Wallace.