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NY Magazine Website Taken Down By Hacker
Attempts to reach the website of NY Magazine this morning have been unsuccessful and greeted with a total DNS failure:
This is the same outlet that just a few hours ago, late on Sunday evening, released a story in which 35 women shared their stories of allegedly being assaulted by Bill Cosby, something NY Mag said was "six months in the making."
35 women tell their stories of being assaulted by Bill Cosby. A project 6 months in the making http://t.co/C5ussU3ocj pic.twitter.com/EyfAtMqf5b
— NYMag PR (@nymagPR) July 27, 2015
Its website went dark shortly thereafter, and both the Cosby article and the entire website have been offline since.
NY Mag promptly tried to make it appear that the site had crashed as a result of a traffic surge created by the Cosby piece...
it seems the @NYMag site is down because of the huge volume of hits http://t.co/8ks2ISKDJL #TheEmptyChair https://t.co/dqLo9lsSJf
— maryteatowel (@maryteatowel) July 27, 2015
... until it was revealed that far from an organic traffic spike, the site had been simply DDOSed.
Our site is experiencing technical difficulties. We are aware of the issue, and working on a fix.
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 27, 2015
So is the "darking" of NY Mag connected to the Cosby piece? It appears the two events are completely unrelated, even if, as the NYT further reports, NY Mag was indeed hacked and taken down: on Twitter, a user who goes by Vikingdom2016 claimed responsibility for an XML attack on the site.
Lol, we ruined New York big night.
— Vikingdom2016 (@Vikingdom2016) July 27, 2015
1 member gets caught = New Yorkers getting swatted!
— Vikingdom2016 (@Vikingdom2016) July 27, 2015
http://t.co/zGfQXK3hku site data might be corrupted since we sent massive XML attack on their servers.
#Vikingdom2015 #Vikingdom2016
— Vikingdom2016 (@Vikingdom2016) July 27, 2015
In an interview with the website Daily Dot, the hacker, also known as ThreatKing, said the attack was based on a hatred for New York, and was not related to the cover that features Mr. Cosby’s accusers.
“I have not even seen the cover, LOL,” he told the website over Skype on Monday.
While it works to restore its website, the magazine is finding other ways to publish: It began posting audio related to the cover article on Instagram.
In retrospect, perhaps getting hacked is becoming a good marketing campaign: three weeks ago the market was shocked when the NYSE went offline for a record 4 hours, with speculation this may be due to a Chinese hack attack, before it was revealed that an incompetent software update was the culprit, and that virtually nobody trades on the NYSE anyway.
For today's struggling media, this may be an easy way to generate if not clicks (after all the site is down in the period in question), then at least publicity. And how soon until we read about the first case of that "black hats" being quietly retained by the targets of their hacking exploits, to result in a win-win outcome for all involved?
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The 'Coz' has his own hacking team
Ya, Theo and Cockroach.
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Im baked.
hey-be man-be...why-be, you-be, break-be, the New York Mag-be Web-be, site-be???
There's ALWAYS room for XMLL-o!
This just strengthens my belief that we need to double down on cybersecurity and introduce basic regulations to curb malicious internet activity. The ever more frequent cyberattacks are a clear demonstration of the dangers of excessive internet freedom. Freedom isn't always a good thing - we have to strike a balance between freedom and safety. This is what our founding fathers repeatedly mentioned in our constitution, and we would be wise to listen to them.
OMG HAXORS WE LOVES YOU!!
Well, it's not like some true journalistic endeavor was hurt here.
Thanks to your illuminated and knowledgeable posts, I am finally starting to see the light.
I now understand that whenever I want bad people to stop doing bad things I just have a law passed against that bad thing and it all stops.
I mean murder, rape, assault, robbery, and drugs are illegal, as is sending classified USGOV emails on private servers and those things never happen.
Clearly, more laws are the answer and your brilliant commentary has led me to the conclusion that we'd all be better off we all lived in individual padded cells with our every need provided for by our betters in government. That way we could be safe from guns, hi fat foods, terrorists, and untrue stories on the internet - the 4 biggest threats to the freedom of America.
~"Ya, Theo and Cockroach."~
YO, YO, YO!!! Easy there.
I'm sensitive, ya' know.
~
What?! It wasn't about me?
Never mind.
Hey hey hey! I broke your website.
Cliff Huxtable, with the jello puddin pop
Hackers hate New York?
Welcome to the club.
Heyyy ...that AIN'T puddin'!
Apparently the barbarians aren't at the gate because their busy picking the lock on the back door. DDOS is easy to do because nobody bothers with security since it might mess up streaming porn......
For the record, no Vikings were actually involved in this incident.
That's because the Vikings were good, honest barbarians......
One thing's for sure....the Coz sure does like his bitches ugly.
Fat Albert strikes back!
Hillary has not blamed the Chinese yet?
Hillary Clinton Says China Is ‘Trying to Hack Into Everything That Doesn’t Move’http://time.com/3946275/hillary-clinton-china-hacking-cyberwarfare-usa/
Hey Just - can you find some links to all those times she spoke out against aggressive and persistent Israeli spying and industrial espionage?
Thanks, broseph.
{/s}
Many believe that Hillary is a Zionist shill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8m_P8DVMR8
She's just upset they're trying to get for free what she was going to sell them.
Children and their downloaded tools pressing one button to cause havoc.
Lets see what Ed Norton has to say about NY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgL_5QcZCMo
http://map.norsecorp.com/
Mesmorizing
I'm not suggesting anyone hack it, but anyone ever see this "rational wiki" description of ZH?
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge
I don't *feel* batshit insane.
I do 'feel' that people who think they are burdened with rationality others lack tend to be pedantic cunts who will be first up against the wall when the Revolution comes.
Liberal nutjobs. Just do a search on other topics.
Bottom row...whiteish-looking woman with a big ass fro....is that Rachel Dolezal?
Damn! Less propaganda and noiZ.
What are some to do?!
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
Admitting to hacking = LOL UR RUHTARDED
I'm not even joking when I say hacking might be considered cyberterrorism. This is like taking credit for shooting a police officer. That guy is so fucked.
Probably Obama thugs will discover Vikingdom leads back to Trump's phone. McConnell. Boehner, McCain and Bush will issue a PR saying they are not surprised and he deserves to be locked away for ever. A little later someone called Graham will issue PR saying he agrees but is not giving anyone his phone number ever again.
Once again, Cosby is a distraction with 35 notches.
Related...maybe, maybe not.
He's one of few in the black community that has dared to call everything that enslaves them, especially absent fathers. Absolutely counter to the perverse being normalized.
Did he do it? I don't know. Is it anyone's business. No.
This looks like more race baiting bs to me.
What better place than NYC when the pot finally boils over & the NYPD display their military jackboot.
Maybe Cosby is getting Herman Cained for trying to get blacks to leave the Democrat plantation.
I'm pretty sure "Rev." Jackson and "Rev." Sharpton have even more interesting histories than Cosby. I am almost as confident that we won't be hearing about that any time soon. Too bad.
2nd row, 3rd chair in. Is that Howard Stern...?
For shame...
What's it with men named Bill. Cosby, Clinton. Can't they do like the Kennedy's and get secretaries, waitresses, and their children's baby sitters to put out for them? Trash?
And we care about this ... why?