Syria’s pro-Assad hackers hijack Financial Times blog, Twitter feeds in latest media attack
By The Canadian Press - Friday, May 17, 2013 - 0 Comments
LONDON – A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial…
LONDON – A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which has regularly targeted media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country’s rebels.
A few of the FT’s dozens of Twitter feeds and blogs broadcast messages supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad and attacking Syria’s opposition. One described the Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra as terrorists and linked to a graphic video of a hooded man shooting kneeling prisoners in the back of the head.
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Hackers knew what they were doing, Twitter official suggests
By Terry Collins And Anne D'Innocenzio, The Associated Press - Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 8:35 PM - 0 Comments
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Social media giant Twitter is among the latest U.S. companies…
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Social media giant Twitter is among the latest U.S. companies to report that it is among a growing list of victims of Internet security attacks, saying that hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users. And now, The Washington Post is joining the chorus, revealing the discovery of a sophisticated cyberattack in 2011.
Twitter said in a blog post on Friday it detected attempts to gain access to its user data earlier in the week. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected.
But Twitter discovered that the attackers may have stolen user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250,000 users they describe as “a very small percentage of our users.” The company reset the pilfered passwords and sent emails advising the affected users.
