{"id":127067,"date":"2016-06-15T14:45:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=127067"},"modified":"2016-06-15T14:45:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:45:17","slug":"anonymous-hacktivists-take-on-gupta-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/127067\/anonymous-hacktivists-take-on-gupta-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous &#8216;hacktivists&#8217; take on Gupta media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous Africa, the group that took responsibility for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/168303-this-is-how-i-took-down-the-sabc-anonymous-hacker.html\"><strong>recent attack on the SABC\u2019s websites<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0has set its sights on\u00a0Gupta-owned\u00a0companies.<\/p>\n<p>The activists attacked the websites of ANN7, Sahara Computers, and The New Age.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after starting the attack, the group\u00a0reported that the websites of ANN7 and The New Age\u00a0were down. Sahara computers was down soon after<\/p>\n<p>However, the group revealed that \u201cDatapro\u201d (Vox Telecom) were able to mitigate its attack on ANN7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam at Datapro are good. Sahara is still tango down, working on figuring how to get around the bright minds at Datapro for ANN7,\u201d said Anonymous Africa.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0the time of publication, ANN7, Sahara, and The New Age were accessible from certain connections.<\/p>\n<p>However, DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com reported that the websites of Sahara and The New Age were down.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Anonymous<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Hacktivists launch cyber attack on SABC websites\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/126647\/hacktivists-launch-cyber-attack-on-sabc-websites\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hacktivists launch cyber attack on SABC websites<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous Africa has set its sights on the websites of Gupta-owned companies like ANN7, The New Age, and Sahara Computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":8209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-127067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127069,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127067\/revisions\/127069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}