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Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Guardian Twitter Feeds

Posted by timothy on from the perhaps-they-need-a-guard dept.

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."

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  1. The Best by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:The Best by currently_awake · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You are assuming this really was the Syrian army. I'm sure the NSA would have no difficulty running this as a false flag operation, they could intercept the passwords or use their access to twitter management to do this easily. It certainly makes the media want to champion the cause of military intervention.

    2. Re:The Best by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 3, Funny

      User: GuardianLTD
      Password: 123password

      It's the Grauniad. It was more likely to be '123passwrod' [sic].

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    3. Re:The Best by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 2

      In 1964, Democrat LBJ ran on a "no war" platform and smeared Republican Barry Goldwater as a crazed war-monger. LBJ won. I ended up in the infantry running patrols around Chu Lai.

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  2. Re:It's the Guardian by isorox · · Score: 4, Funny

    No-one would notice the difference

    The tweets were spelt correctly.

  3. oh em gee by fazey · · Score: 2

    They are so 31337, haxing up twitter accounts and all! They probably chill on dalnet.

  4. Re:"Hacking"? by SuricouRaven · · Score: 2

    Perhaps Twitter needs to give corporate customers the option of additional security tools, like one of those changing-numbers keychain thingies or at least an 'allow login from this IP only' setting.