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Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Guardian Twitter Feeds
judgecorp writes "The Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked various Twitter accounts belonging to the Guardian newspaper. Guardian journalists report that the pro-Assad hacking group used a campaign of spear phishing to seize various of its feeds, following success hacking other media outlets including CBS."
The Syrian Electronic Army are the greatest hacking minds in the world! These guys are elite. It's like we're living in Neuromancer or something! Soon they'll be posting ASCII penises to mid-sized news outlets and the imperialist West will tremble.
Its the big redline. I'm coming Wheezy.
Isn't it funny that no matter what you do to secure your computer usage, the weakest link is always the ID10T sitting between the chair and keyboard. You can talk about "cyber warfare" all you want, but in reality, it all comes down to P.T. Barnum tricks.
#naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
No-one would notice the difference
The tweets were spelt correctly.
Maybe if they're going to hire a person to run an entire corporation's Twitter account, they should know basic internet security. They damn well better fire that idiot.
They are so 31337, haxing up twitter accounts and all! They probably chill on dalnet.
Hacking a twitter account seems to present all the difficulty of cutting a silk gown with a chainsaw, or shoving a battering ram through a spider web. As an added bonus, their little "Verified" badge makes people who read the pretenders' tweets think they are that much more accurate all the while.
Something is clearly very wrong with security there; I guess we will MySQL never know.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Most corporate social media sites are the domain of the marketing department. Am I the only one who thinks there isn't much hacking involved?
Username -- BigCorpTwitter
Password -- password1
If I were a company's IT department, I would make sure the marketing people were using a 40 character complex passphrase. Unfortunately there's no way to enforce it, and making it complex means that it'll be written under the keyboard of the Associate Twitter Specialist who has to write all the "spontaneous, off-the-cuff, edgy Web 2.0" marketing messages every day.
I'm quietly rooting for the Assads.
The reason is that while both sides of that squalid little war are a bunch of murderers, the Syrian government are the good guys. They are secular, non-sectarian, believe in women's rights and the rights of minorities.
The other guys are a bunch of terrorists with big filthy dirty beards, who take money from Wahhabi extremists in the Gulf states, and would rape and/or cut the throats of anybody who does not live up to the utterly extreme brand of conservative Islam.
They're both fighting like animals. The secularists are fighting like animals because their lives depend on it. The other side are fighting like animals because of their religious fervour and political ideals -- they ARE animals. Our enemies are Al Qaeda, the EXACT same monsters Assad is fighting in Syria.
Frankly, I think we're backing the wrong horse. I think that nerve gas and cluster bombs is too good for the dirty bearded terrorists they're fighting, and we should be thanking Assad and kissing his arse for taking out this Wahhabi trash for us.
Why are we backing the terrorists in this war? Because a bunch of undereducated, illiterate idiots in the "Arab street" root for the terrorists? Fuck the Arab Street, let's not bow to cheap populism, and just do what's right for a change.
Whoever smelt it dealt it. Which wood be yew.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.