{"id":94865,"date":"2016-06-12T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T13:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94865"},"modified":"2016-06-12T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T15:18:49","slug":"anonymous-activist-takes-down-sabc-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/94865-anonymous-activist-takes-down-sabc-websites","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous activist takes down SABC websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An activist hacker who associates with the Anonymous collective is performing a distributed denial of service attack against several SABC websites.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was executed by a hacker who calls himself @zim4thewin and &#8220;Anonymous Africa&#8221; on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Zim4thewin is the same hacktivist\u00a0who attacked the websites of the ANC and IOL in June 2013 for &#8220;enabling&#8230; Robert Mugabe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Their attack on the SABC today was in protest to the\u00a0decision of the SABC&#8217;s chief operating officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/166514-sabc-bans-showing-protests-and-destruction-of-property-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">ban the filming\u00a0of violent protests<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">As per Zim&#8217;s usual modus operandi, a warning was delivered on Twitter before the attack.<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/zim4thewin\/status\/741790066947817472<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Earlier today, Zim announced when the attacks began.<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/zim4thewin\/status\/741942430275149824<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">SAFM&#8217;s website was apparently the first to go down.<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/zim4thewin\/status\/741943956120993792<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">After 10 minutes, Zim had claimed that all of the SABC&#8217;s major websites were offline.<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/zim4thewin\/status\/741945052142899200<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">According to Zim, this was the largest DDoS attack South Africa had ever experienced.<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/zim4thewin\/status\/741945283760783360<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Zim reaffirmed their\u00a0motivations while\u00a0the attack was underway.<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/zim4thewin\/status\/741945366032089088<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">They called for a revolution in\u00a0Africa on the same scale\u00a0as the Arab Spring.<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/zim4thewin\/status\/741958390356791296<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Zim announced that the attacks against the SABC&#8217;s websites would stop at 16:00.<\/h3>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/zim4thewin\/status\/741978844794638336<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Anonymous attacks in South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/165004-south-african-university-website-hacked-by-anonymous.html\"><strong>South African university website hacked by Anonymous<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/155302-anonymous-nailed-3392-sites-on-webafrica-this-is-how-they-got-in.html\"><strong>Anonymous nailed 3,392 sites on Webafrica \u2013 this is how they got in<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/80285-anc-website-attacker-interviewed.html\"><strong>ANC website attacker interviewed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/80423-anc-website-attack-how-did-is-react.html\"><strong>ANC website attack: how did IS react?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker who goes by @zim4thewin on Twitter has attacked and taken offline several websites that belong to the 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