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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