{"id":22216,"date":"2011-04-18T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T15:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22216"},"modified":"2011-04-19T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T15:50:43","slug":"malaysia-sites-brought-down-by-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22216","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: Sites brought down by cyber-attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 April, a number of opposition and news websites were subject to attacks by hackers causing them to <a title=\"RSF: Many opposition and news sites brought down by cyber-attacks in election run-up\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/malaysia-many-opposition-and-news-sites-15-04-2011,40034.html\" target=\"_blank\">crash<\/a>. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack came in the run-up to elections in Malaysia\u2019s eastern state of Sarawak. An online Malaysian news portal, Malaysiakini,\u00a0was <a title=\"Temaske Review: Malaysiakini under DDOS attack ahead of Sarawak election tomorrow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.temasekreview.com\/2011\/04\/15\/malaysiakini-under-ddos-attack-ahead-of-sarawak-election-tomorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\">forced<\/a> to get its news stories out via Facebook, WordPress and other free websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 April, a number of opposition and news websites were subject to attacks by hackers causing them to crash. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack came in the run-up to elections in Malaysia\u2019s eastern state of Sarawak. An online Malaysian news portal, Malaysiakini,\u00a0was forced to get its news stories out via Facebook, WordPress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[3379,136,1935,7372,1658],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22262,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22216\/revisions\/22262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}