Syrian Electronic Army Hacks CNN’s Twitter Account

Today the Syrian Electrical army have hacked the social profile of Cnn like Facebook and Twitter. CNN is a great. The cable news network (CNN) have said that they have secured everything and also un authorised posts have also removed.

The SEA, a group that supports the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, said in a Twitter message that it had decided to retaliate against CNN's "viciously lying reporting aimed at prolonging the suffering" in Syria.

Syrian electric army have already targeted some social accounts and websites. Few months back they have hacked the true caller database and this month they have hacked the skype and also Microsoft's Internet phone unit, and several other Microsoft social media pages and blogs, including the Microsoft Office Blogs site. 

Some of our organization's social media accounts were compromised. We have secured those accounts and are working to remedy the issue.
— CNN Public Relations (@CNNPR) January 23, 2014

Twitter said ‘Happy New Year’ around the world with interactive map

Plenty of Twitter users did as 2014 began, according to an interactive map created by Twitter’s big data visualizer Krist Wongsuphasawat. Wongsuphasawat used Twitter Analytics to comb through the thicket of tweets for instances wishing people a happy New Year in those fizzy hours as December 31 blurs into January 1, neatly mapping these well-wishes out. If you click on each time zone, you can see which countries celebrated at the same time. Twitter used the Time Zone World Map from TechSlides to make it happen, and the map looks beautiful. 

If you press “play,” countries begin to light up from east to west and the celebratory words from each language appear onscreen. It’s heartening to see a sentiment of goodwill spread so wide across the globe, even in places like China and Korea, where the Lunar New Year is a larger celebration. Below the map, a chart showing when each regionally distinct phrase for “Happy New Year” was tweeted. The English version has several peaks in popularity, since English is spoken in various parts of the world. The Arabic version appeared to have the most prolonged popularity, while other languages experience only brief spikes upward before its speakers stopped celebrating on Twitter.

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Skype’s Facebook, Twitter accounts hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

“Stop spying on the people!” Skype tweeted a strangely self-accusatory message on January 1. And this wasn’t part of a company-wide New Year’s resolution to be internally critical. No, it was the result of a hack from a group who claim to be the Syrian Electronic Army. 

Skype, which is owned by Microsoft, saw its official blog hacked on Wednesday, along with its Facebook and Twitter accounts. “Don’t use Microsoft emails (hotmail, outlook). They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments. More details soon #SEA”  some of the posts said. The group repeated similar entreaties on the company’s Facebook pages, and repeatedly tweeted warnings about using the service. These posts were removed, but not before damage was done – one of the anti-Microsoft tweets was re-tweeted over 8,000 times. 

Skype addressed the hack in a tweet and emphasized that user information was not compromised. 

You may have noticed our social media properties were targeted today. No user info was compromised. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

— Skype (@Skype) January 2, 2014

 The SEA is a group of young hackers who support Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who hack into the accounts of organizations they believe spread bad information about Assad’s regime. The SEA is the highest-profile political hacker collective, and the first to wage successful cyber strikes on its opponents in a way that draws global media attention. It looks as though 2014 will be as busy as 2013 was for them, as the group targeted high-profile media outlets like the New York Times, the BBC, the AP, NPR, Al-Jazeera, and others in the last year. The SEA also went after Twitter in 2013. “You see what the American government wants you to see, but it is a fake revolution,” an SEA leader known as “The Shadow”told Digital Trends last year, explaining the SEA’s motivations. The group has characterized its behavior as a way to damage media outlets spreading bad information, often bad information specifically about the conflict in Syria. But this latest attack shows the SEA’s target pool is widening to include technology companies they believe to aid government spying.

Considering how many organizations were implicated in the NSA leaks, the SEA may have its busiest year ever in 2014.