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Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times
barlevg writes "A day after the New York Times was brought down by a cyber attack, the Washington Post reported being hacked, with various news stories being redirected to the website of the Syrian Electronic Army. It's been speculated that this is the work of the same hacking syndicate that compromised both news organizations last year."
Submitter here.
The NYT themselves claims they weren't hacked. This probably would have been a better choice for the first link than the humor column I originally chose. This non-attack-related downtime cause is elaborated on further in this article posted to zdnet (thx trb).
On the other hand, Fox Business is also citing an unnamed source in saying it was a cyber attack. On the other hand, an unnamed source in a burlap sack is worth the sack.
... is a cyber attack in itself ;-P
no need to accord accolades to what amounts to hordes of s'kiddies.
To paraphrase David Bowie: Hack to hacker.
Handy timing, don't you think.
Also handy targets.
New York Times Web site goes down, panicked mobs stream into street demanding to know the trends
Who knows if one, or more, of these newspaper sites are hacked? I cannot tell anymore...
Dark Reflection
Free Syrian Army = Illuminati/Aristocracy contractors
Probably eastern european, just by odds...but I wouldn't be surprised if it was an American company...
Hell it could be the same company that gets all the AC bots here on /.
Democracy in Syria would significantly harm some old and relied-upon revenue streams for rich white people (oil from Iran to England).
Our governments have been installing figurehead assholes in that region for centuries and Assad is no different.
These attacks are to provoke conflict in the region to overwhelm the 'Arab Spring'-type democracy movement that was happening in Syria.
The global elites don't want Syria to become like Lybia....doing these 'hacking' attacks is an easy way for them to prop-up the 'bad guys' in Syria without doing anything to provoke US/UN intervention.
By doing this stuff they keep the status quo...which is a victory for them, given that Syrians were about to take back their democracy.
Thank you Dave Raggett
Former NYT Digital, Core Infrastructure Engineer here. The outage yesterday was a problem with their load balancers caused by internal action. Stop reading the nonsense posted by Fox Business News.
news of the day: they restored backups and didn't close the holes. special edition, 50 cents, read all about it.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Seriously, what competent IT shop pushes out maintenance updates during peak viewing times ? Our company schedules that work for Friday nights, just in case something unexpected happens. At the very least they should have saved the update until the late evening shift.
The NY Times doesn't sound like they are telling the entire truth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/15/business/media/new-york-times-web-site-returns-after-hours-offline.html?_r=0
More importantly, GitHub is under DDoS. Guess I can't work today, oh noes :p
Now we have intelligence reports telling that the Syrians and the Chinese are in fact the same terrorists.
At least i hope the APT fairies aren't involved this time.
Hopefully Jeff Bezos is going to do something about this, now that he owns the Washington Post (sounds like really old news already). But it's not coming off to a good start, that's for sure.
The SEA hacked Outbrain, which is a content provider. CNN, WP, NY Times, all use this companies software to recommend stories to readers.
http://thehackernews.com/2013/08/Outbrain-hacked-Syrian-Electronic-Army.html
http://techblog.outbrain.com/2013/08/update-outbrain-security-breach/
Obviously there is continued FUD propagated on Slashdot in order for this story to be posted with one slant versus the other.
If Slashdot's moderator is right (and contrary to the tipster) then Slashdot actually has knowledge and somehow participated in the hacking attempts in order to even paint the news event in a particular light. If Slashdot is NOT involved (but still moderates contrary to the tipster) then Slashdot's editors are promulgating fear and doubt into the minds of its readers.
Either way, this story should be revised as to reflect the ACTUAL events which transpired (i.e. NYT experiences downtime the same day as MSFT services... and, the next day, some other company, WashPo, experiences their own downtime.. although the WashPo's downtime may have been due to hackers... in a manner unrelated to how NYT and MSFT experienced downtime, but in a manner in line with how GitHub is experiencing downtime).
Is the Syrian Electronic Army the 'good' guys or the 'bad' guys? Are they getting money, or are they getting droned? Or maybe both?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
A hacker hacked a rag and hacks reported the hacker hacking the rag and hackers hacked another rag and more hacks wrote about hackers hacking the other rag.
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
Children. When these guys start dropping drones in their tracks and smoking NSA computers, they will get my interest.
This isn't intending to blame the victim, but if they were hit by hack attacks previously, shouldn't both these papers actually learn a lesson, stop listening to the PHB chanting, "security has no ROI... security has no ROI..." and actually start locking things down?
This isn't hard. Cisco has good security tools, and an ASA appliance or two wisely installed/configured will isolate things. MS has top tier security tools for the enterprise that are usually "free" (er... businesses pay for them anyway.) RedHat, IBM, and Oracle also have good security tools. Why not use them?
http://www.allthingsnow.com anyways
so....let me get this straight...you claim that...
The US is trying to oust Assad.
Ok I can agree with that...
The US doesn't care or is actively encouraging 'Al-Queda' to become the new 'leader'?
It really makes no sense. "The US" is Obama's foreign policy...what our government does. You cannot provide one shred of evidence, logically or by links to quotations, that "the US wants Al Qaeda in"
Take any policy of the Obama State dept towards the Arab spring. In all cases 'the US' supported the side demanding democracy (to the point it could publicly, without discrediting the rebels as having foreign funding)...
You need to read up on the Arab Spring. While your at it, refresh yourself on Iranian history from pre-WWI to present. Note when Iran released the US hostages in 1980.
Thank you Dave Raggett
heh...that reminds me of the money drop scene in The Big Lebowski...
seriously, what the fsk do you mean "we"..."we" as in the United States?
Americans want the world to be free.
Now, American **companies**
That's different...and in our global economy, national distinctions and becoming less salient.
Unscruplous American companies want shia and sunni to fight indefinitely...'divide and conquer' is a strategy in colonialism and marketing.
American **people** are different from companies that are based in the country.
Thank you Dave Raggett
the good guys in Syria are, obviously, the groups trying to enact democratic reforms in the Syrian government
by your logic, all someone has to do to discredit any democracy revolution is get one Agent Provaceteur to pose as an 'Al-Qaeda operative' and pretend to be on teh side of the rebels, then blog about it and have some of your tech's put his stuff on a known 'Al-Qaeda' website
just because some random group says they oppose Assad and are 'Al-Qaeda' doesn't prove me wrong or you right one bit.
it's obvious that the many pro-DEMOCRACY rebels in Syria are the 'good guys'
Thank you Dave Raggett
Just like FedGov with bad news.
Original post should read: "Syrian Electronic Army"
also: Syrian Electronic Army = Illuminati/Aristocracy contractors...
i deserved my downmods b/c my post was confusing as hell...no wonder the responses made no sense
Thank you Dave Raggett