Sunday 26 May 2013

Syrian Electronic Army Hacked British ITV Twitter

British broadcaster ITV news was the latest mainstream media outlet to have its Twitter feed infiltrated by hackers in the Syrian Electronic Army.
The hackers, who are sympathetic to Syria’s President Bashar Assad, have sworn to attack news outlets perceived to be biased against the Syrian leader, who is in the midst of a two-year civil war. Previous victims include the Associated Press, The Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, and the Onion, a parody news site.
Twitter recently introduced the Two Step Authentication login method, an update that was designed to thwart security breaches of this sort.

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