New York Times and Twitter Attacked By Syrian Electronic Army

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New York Times and Twitter Attacked By Syrian Electronic Army

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @04:03PM from the oh-no-not-the-twit-o-sphere dept.

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."

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Syrian Electronic Army.. by meglon · 2013-08-27 16:13 · Score: 3, Funny

Is that like the Electric Moog Orchestra?

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AND FRANCE SURRENDERS !! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-27 17:02 · Score: 3, Funny

In anticipation of an attack, France has formally surrendered !!
Re:NYT and Twitter attacked by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-27 17:32 · Score: 5, Funny

The SEA are funded by Israel and the US.
And Israel is funded by the Illuminati!
Who are funded by the Underpants Gnomes!
Who don't need to be funded by anybody because
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Profit!
Re:ELO by guttentag · 2013-08-27 17:46 · Score: 4, Funny

Great. Now I've got this mental image of Bashar al-Assad with a bunch of kids with late 70s haircuts in a Damascus bunker rocking out to Don't Bring Me Down while they take down U.S. media sites.

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...
Re:NYT and Twitter attacked by MysteriousPreacher · 2013-08-27 18:38 · Score: 3, Funny

Drat. How due you realise this?
We kept this perfectly secret apart from the clues we inexplicably planted in Denver Airport and the symbols we in included on banknotes.

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