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New York Times and Twitter Attacked By Syrian Electronic Army
cold fjord writes with news that the NY Times website was disrupted by hackers Tuesday afternoon. "In an interview, Mr. Frons said the attack was carried out by a group known as 'the Syrian Electronic Army, or someone trying very hard to be them.' The group attacked the company’s domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. The Web site first went down after 3 p.m.; once service was restored, the hackers quickly disrupted the site again." The Times wasn't the only site to be attacked: "Earlier today, a Twitter account allegedly belonging to the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-Syrian-regime hacker collective, claimed to have taken over The New York Times website, Huffington Post UK's website and Twitter.com, by hacking into each of the site's registry accounts." The group was definitely able to change contact info for Twitter's domain. The Wall Street Journal notes that this is the same group that targeted media organizations a few months back. "When the SEA hacked the Twitter account of the Associated Press earlier this year, it posted a false headline to the account that said the White House had been attacked. The hoax caused U.S. stock markets to briefly lose $200 billion in value."
and nothing of value was lost...
Seriously, there's something I've never understood about electronic "warfare": unless you attack real targets and do something useful, such as penetrating your enemy's command network to steal plans or cryptographic keys or something, what's the point?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Is that like the Electric Moog Orchestra?
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Whats your favorite color?
Security questions are such a fucking joke.
So, first a story about the army being ready to raid the country, and just now a cyber-attack originating from syria happens... How do we know it's not US electronic warfare machine fabricating a bening attack to foster popular support for the coming war? After all, false flags before wars are the norm and not the exception.
Tomorrow is another day...
If I had to guess, someone (name rhymes with banana-rama-me-m-mobama) wants war.
I've heard several reports today of people receiving direct messages from apparently compromised accounts. The direct message apparently contains a link to a website asking the potential victim to confirm their password.
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
This sounds like a couple of teenagers having some fun. I'll bet they're thrilled at all the publicity its getting.
This kind of shit is going to be commonplace. Get your heads screwed on straight will ya?
False Flag
The famous Commander Taco ( well, famous around here anyway )
now works for the NSA. His job at WaPo is merely a cover.
You read it here first.
In anticipation of an attack, France has formally surrendered !!
I am putting money on a flase flag that FOIA will release in 20 years. Sad part is the story is always the same. Just different details.
Remember in the Stratfor hack some of the documents detailed a consortium of people planning chemical attacks in such a way as to place blame on Assad.
Note that many links on the site will not work because they point to the nytimes.com domain. To read articles you'll have to copy the link, paste it into the location field and change "www.nytimes.com" to "170.149.168.130"... for example:
Clicking a link on their home page attempts to take you here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/business/media/hacking-attack-is-suspected-on-times-web-site.html
But that won't work, so you want to change it to:
http://170.149.168.130/2013/08/28/business/media/hacking-attack-is-suspected-on-times-web-site.html
The CSS is still pointing to nytimes.com, so the page will look funny, but at least you can read it.
but there's a real war going on there. If you think Syria (proper) is wasting time fucking with ridiculous (worthless) news sites, then you're barely thinking. Some very powerful "people" have serious hard-ons for Syria and they're gonna do whatever they can do to dick them vigorously. You dullards will watching recaps of this bullshit years from now and bitching, feeling stupid, just as you when you see Colin P talking of weapons of mass destruction.
It's a totally different and real thing, bub. Here's your ticket to the moon.
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Save your false flag discussions for a classroom.
How did the civil war get this far along in Syria? American government is funding/supporting the revolutionaries.
Plenty of despots in the world and the U.S. government is especially interested in this one. Look at all the relationships between Iran and Syria.
At best, this is another nation-building exercise like Kuwait, or Iraq. Does anyone remember when there was Kuwaiti testimony in Congress about Iraq military destroying hospitals and taking babies from imagined incubators prior to re-taking of Kuwait under Bush 41. Here we are again, except this was real.
The only thing we'll do is make Iran more nervous setting up shop in Syria. Which is likely the point of the anyway.
My site is running, serving The New York Times...
You've got me thinking SEA's a waste of my time...
Don't bring me down... no no no no no
I'll tell you once more before I email Melbourne
Don't bring me down...
we must consider the false flag gambit
but there's also the false false flag angle
finally, there is the distinct possibility we could be dealing with a false false false flag attack!
(twiddles fingers, eyes darting)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Wasn't the NSA surveillance program supposed to put a stop to things like this?
Why, yes! I AM new here.
1) Hack news paper, put up false headline
2) Wait for stock market to drop, buy large
3) Sell when stock market recovers
Slashdot was attacked by idiot submitters and editors that believe twitter can
have any impact on the market at all.
It seems suspicious to me that twitter and nytimes would be using this dreadful (Known as expensive, but increasingly not very good) Australian registrar.
I suspect the real chain of events is:
1. Attacker creates Melbourne IT account.
2. Either those sites weren't blocked from transferring registrars, or the attacker found a bug in Melbourne IT's systems that let them transfer the domains.
3. Once the domains were transferred, it was easy to change the records using the normal DNS tools for that registrar.
Melbourne IT needs to comment on what happened.
Also keep an eye out for these domains to transition to another registrar ASAP.
I would not be surprised at all if this was a local attack, designed as a false provocation to build the case for invasion. It will be interesting to watch and see what other "attacks" happen. Though, if Syria is gassing it's own people, something should be done and the UN is too incompetent to fulfill it's charter. It seems the United States gets to re-evaluate it's position as world police every few years when some wack job government goes berserk on it's people and the UN is too busy being the UN to do anything about it. If the UN had been around during U.S. based slavery and the civil war, I don't see anything playing out differently than it did.
Real Syrians want the US gone. Now personally, I'm okay with Syrians just as long as they are willing to listen to non-Syrian views. I'm willing to listen to their viewpoints, why aren't they as open to mine? I'll even give a preview....free drugs, free sex, and free religion. I'm willing to listen to their views of freedom as well.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
I work for a company that was "hacked" by SEA. They use phishing attacks to get passwords from company e-mail. The real message is that companies need to immediately stop putting important passwords in e-mail. Nobody talks about that aspect.
These idiots had access to do much worse than they did (in terms of code injection), but I don't think they had the creativity to do it, fortunately.
Are you saying that Syrians are open to hearing arguments for free sex, drugs, and religion? If such is the case I'll be out protesting in the morning any interention in a country that guarantees such liberties!
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
... you'll believe anything.
What utter nonsense. Syria are the victims in all of this, thanks to Zionists and Zionist symathisers in Congress.
The same Gray Lady that jingoistically trumpeted for war against Iraq.
I wouldn't trust anyone at the NYT farther than I could throw them.
Arabs don't the media? What the fuck does that mean?
>The hoax caused U.S. stock markets to briefly lose $200 billion in value
You know when I found out they could hack the power grid, I thought, wow what damage could that cause!
Then I heard they could hack into missal silos and probably decrypt the launch codes given enough time to brute force the sequence, I knew for sure how much damage that could cause....
Now i see that they can hack media outlets where people get their information from and post hoax stories on almost any news paper or channel, getting access to internal account info on any of those accounts, I really think we are screwed.
If the source of info we have to make daily decisions is compromised, this is worse then limiting our supply of power (we know how to set up solar panels to get some electricity and could somehow still survive the attack), or even damaging our population through nuclear attack (there are a limited of nuclear arms available and the distances of effect of nuclear fall out would not cover all of the US, therefor we could still survive). The source of information telling us the white house has passed a new law stating it is ok for people to go out and hoard water and food because there is a missal on its way from China...even being a hoax, would take a long time to recover from, and eventually no one would ever pay attention to media outlets, and be ignorant to many things happening every where.
We communicate our daily lives through these mediums, and if these mediums are compromised, then we have no communication. News outlets has been around before electricity, and is one of the measurements of how civilized a country has become!
the USA defending the rebels in Syria, the ones who promoted de 11-S.
A way to spin something for more reasons to get involved in somebody else's stupid inhumane mess...
Has anyone else noticed that nytimes.com is down today, but this time it's the Times' own nameservers causing the outage? Their own nameservers are now authoritative in WHOIS. Clearly the site is working via IP http://170.149.168.130 ; now it's the Times' own DNS servers (dns.ewr1.nytimes.com) whose IPs aren't resolving. However, doing an "nslookup nytimes.com 170.149.168.134" (or in Linux, "dig nytimes.com @170.149.168.134) still gives the right IP, the nameservers aren't overloaded or offline.
The Times is now causing their own outage. Conclusion: their Admin was ordered to keep the site down, so the media can play up the outage on the newschannels as the US prepares to strike Syria.
The real idiotic thing is the White House attack article causing a $200 billion stock market drop. It doesn't make any sense. Even if you were fooled by the article, there was no indication in it that anything had happened that could cause American society as a whole to stop functioning. There was nothing there that would be indicative of anything happening to harm businesses. So why the stock market drop?
Actually, what *IS* the point, except to get attention?
What did they expect to gain from this? What was the cause?
If it's due to actions in a foreign country, then what does terrorism against the public accomplish? More militarization and privacy restrictions probably aren't going to help reduce US foreign influence (except in cases of perhaps spreading it a bit thin).
I've never understood the logic in targeting civilians as opposed to those in power who actually make decisions or wield influence/money (not that I support either),
Has anyone else noticed that nytimes.com is down again today, but this time it's the Times' own nameservers causing the outage.
(1) NYTimes site is accessible at http://170.149.168.130. Website up = check.
(2) The authoritative nameservers for nytimes.com in the WHOis are dns.ewr1.nytimes.com and dns.sea1.nytimes.com. They're controlling their own DNS now, *not* the "SEA". (Although it's strange that "sea" is referenced in the nytimes.com nameserver) WHOIS points to correct DNS = check.
(3) The Times' nameservers are returning the correct IP address for nytimes.com (170.149.168.130) when querying them via their IPs, 170.149.168.134 and 170.149.173.133. Doing an "nslookup nytimes.com 170.149.168.134", or "dig nytimes.com @170.149.168.134" in Linux, still gives the right IP from the authoritative nameserver. The nameservers are returning queries & not overloaded, but they're inaccessible via FQDN.
The Times is now causing their own outage. Logical conclusion: their Admin was ordered to keep the site down, so the media can play up the outage on the newschannels as the US prepares to strike Syria.
oh my goodness...guys...you *have* to look up 'pleasure delaying'
seriously, how many times can you bust a nut or get high?
without some sort of way to 'recharge' or have self-reflection the 'highs' of ecstasy actually are just a flat line
call it 'self-reflection' or some other word of 'guilt' has too much baggage as a term for you
the idea is it is part of a cycle in a feedback loop
Thank you Dave Raggett
Awesome.
I'm guessing our AC there is probably a bit younger than us... or at least me. I'd hate to lump you in the "older" group without your consent.
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Now i have.. that... damn song.. in.. my head....
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No, I'm in my mid-twenties; just of an historical bent. I was diagnosed with hipsterism as a child, but a shallow appreciation for the obscure and bygone was too mainstream. It's very satisfying to criticize other young people for getting their history wrong.
...that being said, it's a great way to burn bridges, so I don't actually recommend it.
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If a rumour can cause something to loose $200 thousand-million in value, it wasn't really worth that much in the first place. When are people going to get that stock values are IMAGINARY? Beer - there's something of real, intrinsic value!