Hackers attack Czech news websites in latest media assault

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Cyber security analysts work to restore control over computers, lights, and defend a network during a drill at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory September 30, 2011, in Idaho Falls, Idaho. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Hackers attacked some of the Czech Republic's main news websites on Monday, slowing or crashing their homepages in the latest in a series of cyber assaults on media outlets across the world.

Executives from three of the Central European state's most widely read online titles - www.ihned.cz, www.idnes.cz and www.novinky.cz - said their websites had been disrupted.

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