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."
The Best (Score:3, Funny)
The Syrian Electronic Army are the greatest hacking minds in the world! These guys are elite. It's like we're living in Neuromancer or something! Soon they'll be posting ASCII penises to mid-sized news outlets and the imperialist West will tremble.
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User: GuardianLTD
Password: 123password
Yeah, it takes high caliber NSA types to "hack" into most systems.
Re:The Best (Score:4, Funny)
It's the Grauniad. It was more likely to be '123passwrod' [sic].
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Ms Hillary sold a lot of weaponry during her tour as Secretary of State. Now we have to sell the war to make sure those weapons get used up. That's how you create a market.
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In 1964, Democrat LBJ ran on a "no war" platform and smeared Republican Barry Goldwater as a crazed war-monger. LBJ won. I ended up in the infantry running patrols around Chu Lai.
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I hate when people say "we" when referring to the actions of the government that claims ownership of them.
Stop that. You didn't personally send anyone to kill/die, and it sounds like you were against it, too.
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1. Hack the guardian twitter
2. Post false stuff there and gather other twitter accounts
3. ????
4. THE REBELLION SURRENDERS!!!
(/s) In all honesty, a false flag makes sense to me, while I can't see a real motive for the actual Syrian Army to do this.
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Colossus links to Guardian.
Forbin expresses privacy concerns.
They wouldn't dare (Score:2)
Its the big redline. I'm coming Wheezy.
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The weakest link (Score:1)
Re:It's the Guardian (Score:5, Funny)
No-one would notice the difference
The tweets were spelt correctly.
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Whoever smelt it dealt it. Which wood be yew.
I have an idea (Score:2)
oh em gee (Score:2)
Because twitter. (Score:2)
Hacking a twitter account seems to present all the difficulty of cutting a silk gown with a chainsaw, or shoving a battering ram through a spider web. As an added bonus, their little "Verified" badge makes people who read the pretenders' tweets think they are that much more accurate all the while.
Something is clearly very wrong with security there; I guess we will MySQL [wikipedia.org] never know.
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Something is clearly very wrong with security there
They have users who can be so easily tricked with false information.
"Hacking"? (Score:2)
Most corporate social media sites are the domain of the marketing department. Am I the only one who thinks there isn't much hacking involved?
Username -- BigCorpTwitter
Password -- password1
If I were a company's IT department, I would make sure the marketing people were using a 40 character complex passphrase. Unfortunately there's no way to enforce it, and making it complex means that it'll be written under the keyboard of the Associate Twitter Specialist who has to write all the "spontaneous, off-the-cuff,
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Perhaps Twitter needs to give corporate customers the option of additional security tools, like one of those changing-numbers keychain thingies or at least an 'allow login from this IP only' setting.
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Most corporate social media sites are the domain of the marketing department. Am I the only one who thinks there isn't much hacking involved?
Username -- BigCorpTwitter
Password -- password1
Plus the password would have been emailed to all and sundry because the Media unit thinks everyone needs access and the IT department will automatically protect them from anything computer.
Seriously, I had to explain to a media consultant why we couldn't "just email" a 40 MB video clip to 248 people yesterday. They are retards.
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