Sentence examples for website offline from inspiring English sources

WH Smith has taken its website offline after becoming involved in a porn ebook scandal.

Most were active in LulzSec, a group which claims to have taken the CIA's website offline.

On 20 June, LulzSec knocked the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) website offline, apparently using Cleary's botnet.

The attack was organised by the hacker group Anonymous and succeed in taking the website offline for only 15 minutes.

Hours earlier, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) was forced to take its website offline after a distributed denial of service attack by LulzSec.

While we are doing this we have decided to take our website offline to best protect our customers and the public.

A similar attack on the US-based Dyn web domain provider in October knocked a host of prominent websites offline, including Spotify, Twitter and Reddit.

Most botnets are used for spam, or for DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) – attacks that knock websites offline by sending them so many requests they have a nervous breakdown.

The group rose to prominence after a string of "denial of service" attacks – a simple hack which temporarily takes websites offline – after the release of diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks.

Hacking group Lizard Squad may have been using "thousands of hacked home Internet routers" to run its LizardStresser service, which helps anyone launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to knock websites offline.

In a statement to Bloomberg, Nissan spokesman Dion Corbett stressed that the company has no stance towards or connection with whale hunting, and said Nissan took their websites offline themselves, suspending service to prevent further risks from the DDoS attack.