Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Microsoft Social Media Accounts

Just a few days after it hacked Microsoft’s Skype blog and Twitter account, the Syrian Electronic Army SEA took to some of the company’s other social media accounts over the weekend, hacking both its @MSFTNews and @XboxSupport Twitter handles along with the company’s official blog. It all started...

Al Jazeera SMS service Hacked, Fake messages spread by Hackers

Al-Jazeera says hackers have targeted the Qatar-based TV satellite channel for the second time in a week, sending out false news reports on its mobile sms service. Al Jazeera confirm the hack in a tweet,"We'd like to inform our subscribers that Aljazeera sms sevice is being compromised by pirates...

Pro-Syrian Malware Targets, Impedes Activists

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF warned this week that political activists in Iran and Syria are being targeted in malware attacks disgised as Adobe Flash Player updates on Youtube. In a blog post by the EFF’s Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire on Thursday said the attacks occur after...

Pro-Syrian 'Electronic Army' Hacks Harvard University Site

Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army SEA vandalized Harvard University’s website Monday morning, presenting visitors to the Ivy League university’s homepage with an image of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad dressed posed in front of the nation’s flag in full army regalia. The image was...