Grey Lady Down: Did the Syrians Attack the NYT?

Attack shuts down New York Times website

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The New York Times website was experiencing widespread outages Tuesday afternoon as the apparent result of a malicious attack. People on Twitter began reporting the site was down as early as 3 p.m. ET, and the site was still not available to many users two hours later. The newspaper posted a message on its Facebook page about 5 p.m. ET that said, "Many users are having difficulty accessing The New York Times online. We are working to fix the problem. Our initial assessment is the outage is most likely the result of a malicious external attack." Security threat researcher Matt Johansen said on Twitter that he suspected the attack was the work of the Syrian Electronic Army, a group of hackers aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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