New York Times Taken Down by Account Takeover, Syrian Electronic Army Accused
On Tuesday August 27, The New York Times was taken down in a simple account takeover attack which was more intelligent and planned than it was technically savvy. In this targeted account takeover attempt, the perpetrators focused their efforts on the DNS records of the New York Times. DNS is the system which allows users to type a friendly version of a web address in words, the Domain Name System converts this to the IP address in order to route …
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