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The New York Times website has gone offline for the second time this month after what the company described as a "malicious external attack" which started at15:00 local time (19:00 GMT) yesterday.
The website was partially back online three hours later, although some users still reported difficulties. During the outage the New York Times published new articles on its Facebook page as well as a mirror site.
On its Facebook page, the Times said it was working to fix the outage.
Security experts said there was enough evidence to link a hacking group supporting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to the attack.
"The NYTimes.com domain is pointing at SyrianElectronicArmy.com which maps to an IP address in Russia, so it's clearly a malicious attack," Ken Westin, a security researcher for Tripwire, an online security company, told the BBC.
Michael Fey, chief technology officer at cybersecurity firm McAfee, said "Regardless of technology or tactics deployed, we should expect to see more of these attacks,'' as long as media organisations play a crucial role in reporting news and influencing debate.
A technical problem knocked NYTimes.com offline on 14 August.
In a separate posting on Tuesday, the group also claimed responsibility for hacking Twitter's administrative contact information.
Recently, the Washington Post, CNN and Time magazine websites were targeted in attacks attributed to supporters of the group.
The website was partially back online three hours later, although some users still reported difficulties. During the outage the New York Times published new articles on its Facebook page as well as a mirror site.
On its Facebook page, the Times said it was working to fix the outage.
Security experts said there was enough evidence to link a hacking group supporting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to the attack.
"The NYTimes.com domain is pointing at SyrianElectronicArmy.com which maps to an IP address in Russia, so it's clearly a malicious attack," Ken Westin, a security researcher for Tripwire, an online security company, told the BBC.
Michael Fey, chief technology officer at cybersecurity firm McAfee, said "Regardless of technology or tactics deployed, we should expect to see more of these attacks,'' as long as media organisations play a crucial role in reporting news and influencing debate.
A technical problem knocked NYTimes.com offline on 14 August.
In a separate posting on Tuesday, the group also claimed responsibility for hacking Twitter's administrative contact information.
Recently, the Washington Post, CNN and Time magazine websites were targeted in attacks attributed to supporters of the group.
