{"id":178109,"date":"2015-09-03T15:56:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T15:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=178109"},"modified":"2015-09-03T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T15:57:07","slug":"hackers-target-manchester-police-airport-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/hackers-target-manchester-police-airport-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers target Manchester police, airport websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Eastern European hackers have targeted the Greater Manchester police website making it inaccessible for users on Wednesday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hacking has been described as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), which involves many computers accessing the police website in order to overload it. That also caused the downing of the Manchester Airport website.<\/p>\n<p>Following the attack, a tweet from Greater Manchester police said they were able to resolve \u201ctechnical\u201d problems. But the system crashed again soon after.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, a\u00a0message tweeted from an anonymous Twitter account holder from Lithuania claimed responsibility for the cyber- attack and demanded that the Manchester police acknowledge it an attack not IT failure. \u201cDisclose out there that I was the one who knocked your site or I will not stop here,\u201d the tweet said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/09\/03\/427550\/Hackers-down-Manchester-police-website\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern European hackers have targeted the Greater Manchester police website making it inaccessible for users on Wednesday night. The hacking has been described as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), which involves many computers accessing the police website in order to overload it. That also caused the downing of the Manchester Airport website. Following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology","9":"category-latest-news","10":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}