Web-sites of NYT, Twitter and HuffPo targeted by Syrian Electronic Army

NEW YORK: -- Web-sites of several media companies, including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post, were targeted by a group of hackers supporting the Syrian government. The attacks occurred amid increased discussions between international leaders to take actions against the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

On Tuesday a group, named the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), penetrated into MelbourneIT, an Australian Internet service provider that sells and runs domain names including Twitter.com and NYTimes.com.

In a series of Twitter messages, the SEA claimed responsibility for the malicious attacks.

Security experts monitoring NYTimes.com told reporters that electronic records showed that at the very beginning of what they assesses as “a malicious external attack” the attack the web-site visitors were redirected to a server controlled by the Syrian group. In a while the web-site was shut down.

The attacks on the web-sites of the Huffington Post and Twitter were of a less scale. Twitter confirmed there were problems with availability to the site, but they lasted an hour and a half. No user information was compromised, according to the social media web-site.

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-- THE VOICE OF RUSSIA 2013-08-28

Think they would have better things to do at a time like this !

Can say propaganda. We still say no to war Mr President.. No no no no!