{"id":6335,"date":"2015-12-31T17:48:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2015-12-31T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:48:36","slug":"bbc-website-knocked-down-due-to-apparent-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bbc-website-knocked-down-due-to-apparent-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC website knocked down due to apparent attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BBC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5137\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/BBC.jpg\" alt=\"BBC\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>BBC says its main news website and other sites were knocked offline due to an attack.<br \/>\nService was out for more than three hours Thursday. Users received an error message and the broadcaster said on Twitter the outage was due to technical problems.<br \/>\nBBC later apologized for the outage. A news story posted on the website said it had been due to a &#8220;distributed denial of service&#8221; attack in which a website is swamped with more traffic than it can handle.<br \/>\nThis is a relatively common way to target a website and temporarily make it inaccessible.<br \/>\nThe reported attack hit a wide range of BBC websites and also affected the iPlayer and iPlayer Radio services.<br \/>\nThe corporation&#8217;s televised news service and live radio services remained on the air.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/bbc-website-knocked-down-due-to-apparent-attack\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC says its main news website and other sites were knocked offline due to an attack. Service was out for more than three hours Thursday. Users received an error message and the broadcaster said on Twitter the outage was due to technical problems. BBC later apologized for the outage. A news story posted on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}