The hacker group gets administrator privileges for Twitter's domain name record and also appears involved in a New York Times' Web site outage. August 27, 2013 2:59 PM PDT A Syrian Electronic Army e-mail address is listed with control over the Twitter.com domain. (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) The Syrian Electronic Army apparently took control over the Twitter.com Web site address record Tuesday, the hacker group's latest attack on high-profile Internet sites. The Twitter.com whois record, which lists the owner of the Web address names called domains, listed the owner's e-mail address as sea@sea.sy. The site continued to function, however. A tweet by Twitter user Official_SEA16 said, "Hi @Twitter, look at your domain, its owned by #SEA :)" https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/statuses/372462339456380928 SEA has found Twitter to be a fruitful avenue of attack. In recent months, it's taken over the Twitter feeds of Thomson Reuters, the BBC, 60 Minutes, and The Associated Press. A Syrian Electronic Army Twitter account claimed credit for the Twitter attack. (Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) Related stories Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Thomson Reuters' Twitter feed Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Viber database Sky's Android apps, Twitter account hacked Onion's Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army The New York Times' Web site went down on Tuesday afternoon, and the SEA is a suspect there, too. "Our initial assessment is that this is most likely the result of a malicious external attack," the Times said in a statement on Facebook. The Syrian Electronic Army is a suspect: Gawker published a screenshot of the newspaper's site that said, simply, "Hacked by SEA." CNET contacted The New York Times for comment and will update this story with its response. The New York Times posted links on Facebook to articles with hard-coded numeric Internet addresses rather than the "nytimes.com" domain. Here's a Times story saying U.S. military options for action in Syria, for example. That numeric addresses still work suggests that the problem is with the Times' Domain Name System (DNS) record, which tells Web browsers what numeric Internet address to use to use for human-readable addresses like "nytimes.com." Indeed, according to DNS records published by security expert Brian Krebs, the New York Times Internet addresses redirected to sea.sy addresses. Although the SEA didn't get control over Twitter's Domain Name Server listing, which would have allowed it to redirect Twitter.com Web site traffic to a server with an IP address of its own choosing, it did apparently take control of a seconday server used for Twitter.com graphics. "Oh yeah, look at that. twimg[dot]com DNS records changed to http://m.sea.sy/mob.sea.sy also," Krebs said, posting a screenshot of the record. The twimg.com address is used to host images on Twitter.

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The hacker group gets administrator privileges for Twitter's domain name record and also appears involved in a New York Times' Web site outage. August 27, 2013 2:59 PM PDT A Syrian Electronic Army e-mail address is listed with control over the Twitter.com domain. (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) The Syrian Electronic Army apparently took control over the Twitter.com Web site address record Tuesday, the hacker group's latest attack on high-profile Internet sites. The Twitter.com whois record, which lists the owner of the Web address names called domains, listed the owner's e-mail address as sea@sea.sy. The site continued to function, however. A tweet by Twitter user Official_SEA16 said, "Hi @Twitter, look at your domain, its owned by #SEA :)" https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/statuses/372462339456380928 SEA has found Twitter to be a fruitful avenue of attack. In recent months, it's taken over the Twitter feeds of Thomson Reuters, the BBC, 60 Minutes, and The Associated Press. A Syrian Electronic Army Twitter account claimed credit for the Twitter attack. (Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) Related stories Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Thomson Reuters' Twitter feed Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Viber database Sky's Android apps, Twitter account hacked Onion's Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army The New York Times' Web site went down on Tuesday afternoon, and the SEA is a suspect there, too. "Our initial assessment is that this is most likely the result of a malicious external attack," the Times said in a statement on Facebook. The Syrian Electronic Army is a suspect: Gawker published a screenshot of the newspaper's site that said, simply, "Hacked by SEA." CNET contacted The New York Times for comment and will update this story with its response. The New York Times posted links on Facebook to articles with hard-coded numeric Internet addresses rather than the "nytimes.com" domain. Here's a Times story saying U.S. military options for action in Syria, for example. That numeric addresses still work suggests that the problem is with the Times' Domain Name System (DNS) record, which tells Web browsers what numeric Internet address to use to use for human-readable addresses like "nytimes.com." Indeed, according to DNS records published by security expert Brian Krebs, the New York Times Internet addresses redirected to sea.sy addresses. Although the SEA didn't get control over Twitter's Domain Name Server listing, which would have allowed it to redirect Twitter.com Web site traffic to a server with an IP address of its own choosing, it did apparently take control of a seconday server used for Twitter.com graphics. "Oh yeah, look at that. twimg[dot]com DNS records changed to http://m.sea.sy/mob.sea.sy also," Krebs said, posting a screenshot of the record. The twimg.com address is used to host images on Twitter.

The hacker group gets administrator privileges for Twitter's domain name record and also appears involved in a New York Times' Web site outage. August 27, 2013 2:59 PM PDT A Syrian Electronic Army e-mail address is listed with control over the Twitter.com domain. (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) The Syrian Electronic Army apparently took control over the Twitter.com Web site address record Tuesday, the hacker group's latest attack on high-profile Internet sites. The Twitter.com whois record, which lists the owner of the Web address names called domains, listed the owner's e-mail address as sea@sea.sy. The site continued to function, however. A tweet by Twitter user Official_SEA16 said, "Hi @Twitter, look at your domain, its owned by #SEA :)" https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/statuses/372462339456380928 SEA has found Twitter to be a fruitful avenue of attack. In recent months, it's taken over the Twitter feeds of Thomson Reuters, the BBC, 60 Minutes, and The Associated Press. A Syrian Electronic Army Twitter account claimed credit for the Twitter attack. (Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) Related stories Syrian Electronic Army hijacks Thomson Reuters' Twitter feed Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Viber database Sky's Android apps, Twitter account hacked Onion's Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army The New York Times' Web site went down on Tuesday afternoon, and the SEA is a suspect there, too. "Our initial assessment is that this is most likely the result of a malicious external attack," the Times said in a statement on Facebook. The Syrian Electronic Army is a suspect: Gawker published a screenshot of the newspaper's site that said, simply, "Hacked by SEA." CNET contacted The New York Times for comment and will update this story with its response. The New York Times posted links on Facebook to articles with hard-coded numeric Internet addresses rather than the "nytimes.com" domain. Here's a Times story saying U.S. military options for action in Syria, for example. That numeric addresses still work suggests that the problem is with the Times' Domain Name System (DNS) record, which tells Web browsers what numeric Internet address to use to use for human-readable addresses like "nytimes.com." Indeed, according to DNS records published by security expert Brian Krebs, the New York Times Internet addresses redirected to sea.sy addresses. Although the SEA didn't get control over Twitter's Domain Name Server listing, which would have allowed it to redirect Twitter.com Web site traffic to a server with an IP address of its own choosing, it did apparently take control of a seconday server used for Twitter.com graphics. "Oh yeah, look at that. twimg[dot]com DNS records changed to http://m.sea.sy/mob.sea.sy also," Krebs said, posting a screenshot of the record. The twimg.com address is used to host images on Twitter.

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The hacker group gets administrator privileges for Twitter's domain name record and also appears involved in a New York Times' Web site outage.

August 27, 2013 2:59 PM PDT

A Syrian Electronic Army e-mail address is listed with control over the Twitter.com domain.

(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)

The Syrian Electronic Army apparently took control over the Twitter.com Web site address record Tuesday, the hacker group's latest attack on high-profile Internet sites.

The Twitter.com whois record, which lists the owner of the Web address names called domains, listed the owner's e-mail address as sea@sea.sy. The site continued to function, however.

A tweet by Twitter user Official_SEA16 said, "Hi @Twitter, look at your domain, its owned by #SEA :)" https://twitter.com/Official_SEA16/statuses/372462339456380928

SEA has found Twitter to be a fruitful avenue of attack. In recent months, it's taken over the Twitter feeds of Thomson Reuters, the BBC, 60 Minutes, and The Associated Press.