Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times 98
barlevg writes "A day after the New York Times was brought down by a cyber attack, the Washington Post reported being hacked, with various news stories being redirected to the website of the Syrian Electronic Army. It's been speculated that this is the work of the same hacking syndicate that compromised both news organizations last year."
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Submitter here.
The NYT themselves claims they weren't hacked. [nytimes.com] This probably would have been a better choice for the first link than the humor column I originally chose. This non-attack-related downtime cause is elaborated on further in this article posted to zdnet (thx trb). [zdnet.com]
On the other hand, Fox Business is also citing an unnamed source in saying it was a cyber attack. [foxbusiness.com] On the other hand, an unnamed source in a burlap sack is worth the sack.
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Y-you have three hands?! You're a Martian aren't you?
Clearly he's a Motie.
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you beat me to it.
The proper expression is
On the one hand [one expression]
on the other hand [other expression]
on the gripping hand [gripping expression]
It was this idiom in general usage that lead human authorities to believe that quarantine had failed.
Niven: The Mote in God's Eye
and The Gripping Hand
NYT not hacked. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:maintenance updates during the day ? (Score:5, Informative)
FTR, the entire Digital Core Infrastructure team (responsible for Storage, Virtual Infrastructure, OS Mgmt, App Support and some networking) resigned approximately 3 months ago.
Re:NYT not hacked. (Score:2, Informative)
Yes - ignore FOX. I have the real scoop from Rush: [rushlimbaugh.com]
RUSH: Folks, you can try to get to the New York Times story on the Clinton Global Initiative on the Web. I don't think you can. It's been taken down. Well, I don't know if it's been taken down or they just ended the access to it. But don't worry, I have enough of it for certain pull quotes. Oh, the whole website's inaccessible, so maybe the Times got hacked. Okay, Times got hacked. I thought just that one story pulled down. All right. It's obviously the Clinton story, the expose of the Clinton Global Initiative that's resulted in the Times website being hacked. The story is in the UK Telegraph, by Tim Stanley. "The New York Times Takes Down the Clinton Foundation. This Could Be Devastating for Bill and Hillary," is the headline. The lead is, "Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh?"
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