BBC Taken Offline By 'Anti-IS' Group (bbc.co.uk)

New submitter shilly writes: The BBC is reporting that all its websites were taken offline on New Year's Eve for several hours, and the attack appears to be from a group calling itself New World Hacking. The group claims its raison d'être is to attack IS, but wanted to test out its capabilities first and chose the BBC as a target. A member of the group said, "We realize sometimes what we do is not always the right choice, but without cyber hackers... who is there to fight off online terrorists?"

Comments

Re:Attention seekers.

[fustakrakich]

The BBC is the one seeking attention, claiming they were attacked, when it turns out somebody pulled the plug by accident. Take down an "ISIS" site, who's gonna know without a big announcement from the attackers?

Hacking practice with a DOS on friendless?

[wjcofkc]

Their hearts *might* be in the right place, but not their packets. If they wanted some real practice they would do some serious old fashion investigative work and dig up any and every detail they can on the Linode attack and then give that information to the company so that they might mount a better defense strategy and perhaps help the law enforcement side of things. After all, these gray hats are running with the right circles, no...? Then again, their "practice attack" was something script kiddies could have likely pulled off. I'll bet this is all about ego. They are playing with fire.