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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by jnbiche on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @07:57PM (#6287146)
NYTimes and Twitter are lame targets? In the US, at least, you don't get a much higher profile non-government target than the NY Times. I mean, if this were a false flag operation -- and I'm not convinced it is -- then the three-letter guys wouldn't very likely chose to target themselves, or other government, would they? They would portray them as being inept at defending themselves.
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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by krelian on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @08:02PM (#6287171)
The target was one registrar and the disruption wasn't anything that's going to be talked bout tomorrow morning. Fairly lame for a sophisticated false flag operation.
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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by jnbiche on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @08:26PM (#6287257)
No, the attack target was almost certainly sites like the NY Times and Twitter. The attack vector was the domain registrar you refer to. It seems very unlikely that the target was Melbourne IT per se. You see how many of us hadn't even heard of them -- hardly a high-impact target.
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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by Helianthus on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @08:31PM (#6287269)
Another way of looking at it: target one decently sized registrar and you'll get a handful of important sites. This isn't big news.
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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by mjolk on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @10:54AM (#6290360)
>NYTimes and Twitter are lame targets?

Yes. A declining media/entertainment company and an advertising firm?

>In the US, at least, you don't get a much higher profile non-government target than the NY Times.

Google, Academi/Blackwater, any number of our oil companies?

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Re:Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Arm... by anigbrowl on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @08:25PM (#6287247)
Attacking the NYT tells me you just want attention. There are many much higher-value non-government targets who hacking would seriously worry me.
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