US Army Website Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 8, 2015 @04:27PM from the change-your-password dept.

swinferno writes: On Monday afternoon, the Syrian Electronic Army claimed on Twitter to have successfully hacked the website of the United States Army, army.mil. Various screenshots that appeared on Twitter reportedly showed pro-Assad propaganda on the site before it crashed. "Today an element of the Army.mil service provider's content was compromised. After this came to our attention, the Army took appropriate preventive measures to ensure there was no breach of Army data by taking down the website temporarily," spokesman Brig. Gen. Malcom B. Frost said in a statement.

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Different goals by Bathroom+Humor · 2015-06-08 16:50 · Score: 4, Interesting

I guess you can tell the ambition of an attack based on how obvious it is.
When the Syrian Electronic Army hacks a website, they simply vandalize it and make a lot of noise. When someone else, say the Chinese government, hacks a web address, they ignore the front pages altogether and go straight for the data centers. Way more discrete, way more dangerous.
I could make a fart analogy out of this. So I will.
The silent ones are the ones you need to fear.