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Syrian Government Hacked, 43GB of Data Spilled Online By Hacktivists (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the becoming-a-daily-occurrence dept.

An anonymous reader writes: On April 6, a hacking outfit going by the name of Cyber Justice Team leaked data from multiple Syrian government and private websites. The leak includes the password file from the breached server, along with MySQL host permissions, admin passwords, and a link to the 10GB compressed file, uploaded to the file sharing site MEGA. While some of the data seems to be from older data breaches, some of it is also new. This is one of the biggest leaks of Syrian government data, a regime that has remained protected against such threats due to an aggressive cyber-policy. The government has been known to secretly back the Syrian Electronic Army hacker group, who the US government recently indicted (3 members at least).

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  1. Leak spam to desensitize? by Tyr07 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Feels like someone is trying to desensitize us from data breaches so they don't have to be responsible or upgrade their infrastructure to prevent it from happening.

    1. Re:Leak spam to desensitize? by dave420 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Your position reeks of paranoia. You've got to show why this has not the likeliest explanation, but some complicated scheme involving not just hackers, but hackers working with a cabal of government/reptilians/whatever trying to skew your precious mind.

      To me this sounds like business as usual: 'Bad guys' have some data, 'good guys' take it and release it. Who is good and bad is subjective, however, hence the quotes.

  2. Double Standard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Whether it's Assad's regime using chemical weapons on the Syrian people or ISIL committing all sorts of atrocities, there are no good guys in the fight. Both sides are Islamic, and both are clearly in the wrong. ISIL has committed numerous attacks around the world, slaughtering innocent civilians in cowardly terror attacks. We'll probably learn more about the attacks on the Syrian people by the Assad regime in this data breach. Again, all of these evils are done by Muslims in a war that is very much about Islam. In the West, we're constantly told that Islam is a religion of peace. Those who point out the violence in Islam are branded as bigots or dismissed as fools. Islam is called a religion of peace and is given a free pass for the violence committed in its name. However, a Christian baker who refuses to bake a cake for an LGBT wedding gets widely criticized by the media and Christianity is labeled a religion of hate. The Christians aren't stopping the LGBT couple from getting married ad there are plenty of other bakers willing to bake that cake. Yet Christianity is routinely attacked by the media as a religion of hate, while Islam is considered a religion of peace and gets a free pass. Can anyone justify this double standard as anything but extremely unfair?

    1. Re:Double Standard by Mashiki · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Can anyone justify this double standard as anything but extremely unfair?

      Of course not. Islam is the media darling and can do no wrong because "islamophobia." Fun reminder, that at the extreme end of the media claiming islamophobia(a word coined by islamist extremists) and these things are problematic when people call out the BS. Then you'll see stuff like this and the media trying to cover it up, claiming that "the story needs more work."

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    2. Re:Double Standard by EmeraldBot · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Whether it's Assad's regime using chemical weapons on the Syrian people or ISIL committing all sorts of atrocities, there are no good guys in the fight. Both sides are Islamic, and both are clearly in the wrong. ISIL has committed numerous attacks around the world, slaughtering innocent civilians in cowardly terror attacks. We'll probably learn more about the attacks on the Syrian people by the Assad regime in this data breach. Again, all of these evils are done by Muslims in a war that is very much about Islam. In the West, we're constantly told that Islam is a religion of peace. Those who point out the violence in Islam are branded as bigots or dismissed as fools. Islam is called a religion of peace and is given a free pass for the violence committed in its name. However, a Christian baker who refuses to bake a cake for an LGBT wedding gets widely criticized by the media and Christianity is labeled a religion of hate. The Christians aren't stopping the LGBT couple from getting married ad there are plenty of other bakers willing to bake that cake. Yet Christianity is routinely attacked by the media as a religion of hate, while Islam is considered a religion of peace and gets a free pass. Can anyone justify this double standard as anything but extremely unfair?

      Wars were caused in the middle east because the current leaders are all idiots, not because of a religion. The religion's just a propoganda cover story, for the purpose of convincing more idiots to bloe themselves up - or, for people like you to once again bring back the xenophobia. Blacks were once responsible for all our problems: then it was Jews, then Japanese, then Russians, then Chinese, and now the Middle East gets their turn. Do you really think we haven't done this whole spiel before?

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    3. Re:Double Standard by Mashiki · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Wars were caused in the middle east because the current leaders are all idiots, not because of a religion. ...

      Islam is not only a religious system and legal system, but a political system too. And many of the leaders in that region use it as justification for their actions, that includes the current, past, and terrorist groups. That's not propaganda, that's a combination of cultural and religious. That is your fundamental difference between your "it was 'jews, japanese, russians, chinese" bit. Judaism was a religious and political system, until it had it's reformation. Now there are only the die hard hold outs. Christianity never really was, neither paganism or orthodox christian were religious and political system. And neither is shintoism.

      You're welcome to believe whatever you want though, but there's no xenophobia involved. And what islam needs to do is get caught up to the 21st century, and that means taking those religious scholars that say "making snowmen is idolatry," "women are inferior," "a man's testimony is twice that of a women's." That whole "it's just a propaganda problem" didn't fly during the middle ages, and it didn't fly in the 1980's either here in the west.

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