USA TODAY: The New York Times website was hacked Tuesday, the latest in a series of high-profile attacks on media websites.
It is the second failure of the Times’ site in two weeks. It went dark on Aug. 14 due to what the publication said then was an internal problem, not the result of hacking…
[Marc] Frons also said the attack was carried out by the Syrian Electronic Army “or someone trying very hard to be them.” The SEA, a group of hackers who support Syrian President Bashar Assad, have organized and carried out online attacks on prominent websites in recent months… (more)
