The Syrian Electronic Army successfully infiltrated CNN.
The SEA posted fake content on
- @CNN
- @NatlSecurityCNN
- @CNNSitRoom
- @CNNPolitics
- CNN’s official Facebook page
- CNN’s Security Clearance blog
- CNN’s Political Ticker blog
This demonstrated the SEA’s ability to infiltrate organizations at will. Mashable is reporting that soon after seeing CNN reports critical of the Assad regime, the SEA decided to hack CNN. Soon after making this decision, the SEA seized the assets listed above. How do they do it? Spearphishing. Mashable quotes Dave Lewis, a security advocate at Akamai Technologies,
People are the soft chewy center of the security landscape.
If you can’t purge people from your organization, what can you do? You might try training them. But training does not make people more effective at avoiding deception.
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