SANA Website Attacked to Prevent it from Conveying Truth of Events in Syria

source: http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2012/07/14/431380.htm

Jul 14, 2012 DAMASCUS, (SANA) – The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) website on Saturday was attacked by foreign sides which try to prevent the Syrian national media from conveying the truth of events and unmasking the conspiracy hatched against Syria. After the failure of several attempts to hack the website and publish fabricated news on it, foreign sides targeted the website with a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack). In the same context, anonymous sides stole SANA logo from the website and designed an advertisement in English and Arabic that includes provocative calls and distributed it through email. On June 27th, an armed terrorist group attacked al-Ikhbariya Satellite TV Channel headquarters, destroyed it and stole its equipment before blowing it up. SANA website is a multi-lingual website. It publishes news and articles in seven languages: English, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish and Arabic. F.Allafi ------------------ Also see more about this attack on the Syrian News website at: http://nocheinparteibuch.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/sana-syndication-sana-website-attacked-to-prevent-it-from-conveying-truth-of-events-in-syria/ Other Syrian News Sites are: champress.net syriaonline.sy breakingnews.sy

Read more about the way free speech is attacked in Syria at: http://iraansnieuws.blogspot.nl/2012/06/vernietiging-syrisch-tv-station-en-het.html

It reminds me of the way the Iranian website Press TV was attacked back in february 2012 (http://iraansnieuws.blogspot.nl/2012/02/amerikaans-israelische-hackers-proberen.html)

Update July 16, 2012: After having been unreachable in the weekend of 14-15 July, the site was back on-line in the afternoon of July 16, 2012, with this tweet from @SANA_English

but the website was down again in the evening of July 16, CET.