Hackers down government website

A hacker group says that they have taken down the Swedish government's website, regeringen.se, although the government itself says it will not comment, for security reasons.

News agency TT says that a Swedish group called CyberForce has claimed responsibility for the attack. Security consultant Anders Nilsson, at Eurosecure, says to TT that the hackers have overloaded the government's website with too much traffic, so that it can no longer be viewed.

Today there are demonstrations across Sweden against the international ACTA law, which the government is expected to sign up to, bu which critics say stifles Internet freedom in order to crack down on file-sharing.