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Twitter, New York Times, other marquee sites hit by powerful cyber attack

2013-08-28 14:17:07| InfoWorld: Top News

Twitter, The New York Times, and other prominent websites were struck by a powerful cyberattack that continued affecting other websites into Tuesday evening, directing visitors to a site purportedly controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The attackers apparently struck an Australian IT services company, Melbourne IT, which provides domain name registration services. The pro-Syrian government SEA has recently conducted several high-profile attacks against media and other websites.

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