Syrian Electronic Army – Sophisticated?
Yesterday the Syrian Electronic Army attacked Twitter, Huffington Post UK and the New York Times. Visitors to the New York Times website were greeted with this: The Washington Post characterized the attacks: The cyberattacks were among the more sophisticated in a recent series of assaults on high-profile Western media organizations, including The Washington Post and the Associated Press. Did these attacks demonstrate great technical sophistication? No doubt the SEA has been effective in its efforts to disrupt the media. However, in reality these attacks were technically trivial. SC Magazine is reporting that these attacks were accomplished using . . . . [...]