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Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Guardian Twitter Feeds 42

judgecorp writes "The Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked various Twitter accounts belonging to the Guardian newspaper. Guardian journalists report that the pro-Assad hacking group used a campaign of spear phishing to seize various of its feeds, following success hacking other media outlets including CBS."
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Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Guardian Twitter Feeds

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  • Re:The Best (Score:3, Insightful)

    by currently_awake ( 1248758 ) on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @10:08AM (#43590241)
    You are assuming this really was the Syrian army. I'm sure the NSA would have no difficulty running this as a false flag operation, they could intercept the passwords or use their access to twitter management to do this easily. It certainly makes the media want to champion the cause of military intervention.

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