{"id":24653,"date":"2011-01-02T10:49:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T10:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/01\/02\/wikileaks-hackers-bring-down-z\/"},"modified":"2011-01-02T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T10:49:19","slug":"wikileaks-hackers-bring-down-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/02\/wikileaks-hackers-bring-down-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks Hackers Bring Down Zimbabwe Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hacktivists have struck a blow against the regime in Zimbabwe by attacking a number of government websites. The cyber-assault appears to have been in support of newspapers who published secret cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, to the annoyance of the-powers-that-be in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, was recently reported to be suing a newspaper for $15 million after it published a WikiLeaks cable that claimed she has benefited from illegal diamond trading.<\/p>\n<p>As news spread amongst the loosely-knit group of Anonymous hackers who support WikiLeaks, websites belonging to the Zimbabwe government and Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF party were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and, in the case of the Finance Ministry, defacements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source, and a picture of the hacked site, <a href=\"http:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2010\/12\/31\/pro-wikileaks-hackers-attack-zimbabwe-government-websites\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacktivists have struck a blow against the regime in Zimbabwe by attacking a number of government websites. The cyber-assault appears to have been in support of newspapers who published secret cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, to the annoyance of the-powers-that-be in the country. Grace Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, was recently reported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/02\/wikileaks-hackers-bring-down-z\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wikileaks Hackers Bring Down Zimbabwe Websites<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6pD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}