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A comment on Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility. Parent comment

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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