Ex-State Department official: 'It looks like a takedown'
(NEWSER) - Al-Qaeda's most popular web forums have gone dark for 11 days now in what experts are calling a likely cyber attack, the Washington Post reports. "It sure looks like a takedown," said a former State Department official. If website administrators were dealing with mere technical glitches, they would "get on another site and say we’ve got administrative problems." But so far, no one is taking responsibility for the longest non-stop outage of al-Qaeda's chat rooms since they started operating in 2004. More»
