Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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Post by jpadilla_ » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 9:21 PM UTC

Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility
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#2

Post by unreal37 » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 9:55 PM UTC

Whoa. Twitter, NYTimes, HuffPo... all had their DNS records hacked? This seems huge.

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#3

Post by dimitar » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 10:09 PM UTC

Why hasn't the SEA changed the nameservers?

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#4

Post by jeremycole » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 10:10 PM UTC

twimg.com seems to be hijacked

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Post by bluetidepro » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

As someone asked in the comments of the article asked (no response yet), I'm curious myself...

> "twimg.com is a domain used by Twitter which is an widget company that is part of a network of sites, cookies, and other technologies used to track you, what you do and what you click on, as you go from site to site, surfing the Web. Does that not mean that SEA will be intercepting this data?"

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Post by grumps » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

How hard is this to do...

I ask because I find it harder to believe that they are responsible for this. Just like I don't trust the YouTube videos either. I would find it more likely that three letter agencies are involved as PR.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

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Post by pseudometa » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 10:14 PM UTC

grumps wrote: post #6

How hard is this to do... I ask because I find it harder to believe that they are responsible for this. Just like I don't trust the YouTube videos either. I would find it more likely that three letter agencies are involved as PR.

I don't buy it either. Seems fishy.

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Post by InclinedPlane » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 10:15 PM UTC

dimitar wrote: post #3

Why hasn't the SEA changed the nameservers?

DNSSEC most likely.

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Post by pain_perdu » Tue, Aug 27, 2013, 10:18 PM UTC

DNS Records have been hijacked and point to Syrian Electronic Army

http://i.imgur.com/RwH0mpI.png