Right-wing blog site Whaleoil has crashed after a sustained denial-of-service attack.
The website has been down since 8am this morning, and editor Cameron Slater says it coincides with a number of death threats he has received.
"DDOS attack underway on my site ... someone is pissed off," the controversial blogger tweeted earlier.
A denial-of-service attack (DoS), also known as a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS), is carried out to make a website unavailable to its intended users. It consists of a hacker, or hackers, bombarding the site with connection requests which overload its capacity.
Slater later tweeted: "Still under denial of service attack, seems some ppl from the subcontinent aren't happy after our post yesterday."
