Hackers hit China foreign correspondents club website

“China’s foreign journalists association said Friday it had taken its website offline after it was targeted in repeated denial-of-service attacks.

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said it did not know who was behind the attacks but that they originated from Internet addresses in both China and the United States.

However, it noted the ‘physical location of the servers does not tell us much since hackers can use any machine they have been able to exploit.’

The statement said the club, regarded by the Chinese government as an illegal organisation, ‘has been the target of persistent denial-of-service attacks.’

‘We have taken the site down temporarily while we work to sort out the problem,’ it said.
A denial-of-service attack floods a network with so many requests that normal traffic is slowed down or completely interrupted.”

(Source: Hackers hit China foreign correspondents club website – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.)