The websites of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and the International Symposium for Online Journalism hit by massive cyber attack that left the sites down for last two weeks.
“The malicious cyber-attack was enough to shut our websites down, but not to enough to shut us up. We rapidly created WordPress blogs to continue our regular and unique report on Journalism in the Americas,” said professor Rosental Alves, founder and director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin.
“We have no idea why someone would want to attack our sites"said professor Alves.
They noticed that the origin of the cyber-attack was in computers located in Russia.
According to the Knight center news report, the attack was taken place on March 11. Those affected websites are now back online.
"We had to shut down the sites, while the University of Texas IT department conduct its work to clean the sites and make sure increase its security levels.We are happy to be back with our normal presence on the Web,” said professor Alves.
“The malicious cyber-attack was enough to shut our websites down, but not to enough to shut us up. We rapidly created WordPress blogs to continue our regular and unique report on Journalism in the Americas,” said professor Rosental Alves, founder and director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin.
“We have no idea why someone would want to attack our sites"said professor Alves.
They noticed that the origin of the cyber-attack was in computers located in Russia.
According to the Knight center news report, the attack was taken place on March 11. Those affected websites are now back online.
"We had to shut down the sites, while the University of Texas IT department conduct its work to clean the sites and make sure increase its security levels.We are happy to be back with our normal presence on the Web,” said professor Alves.