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Posted by David Gerstman on September 12, 2013 23 Comments

When aliens said "We come in peace," they almost invariably had their sights set on world domination. So beware Vladimir Putin when he comes bearing peace....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 28, 2013 8 Comments
Yesterday we reported that the NY Times was subjected to an attack from the Syrian Electronic Army as part of a broader attack on Western media, Syrian Electronic Army: “Media is going down”. It's apparently happening again today. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/372723123591729152 Here's the image I got when I tried to access it, ironically referencing a prior NY Times story about how it was hacked: NY Times Oops CNN reports:
As an outage of the New York Times website stretched into its second day Wednesday, evidence continued to mount that it was the result of an attack by the Syrian Electronic Army. The group, loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, has been behind multiple attacks on media websites in recent months and, on Twitter, took credit for a sophisticated hack that had hobbled the news site for roughly 20 hours. "The @nytimes attack was going to deliver an anti-war message but our server couldn't last for 3 minutes," the group posted on its Twitter feed at about 9:40 Wednesday morning.

Posted by Mandy Nagy on August 26, 2013 4 Comments

The Guardian has added another partner to its reporting collaboration on the NSA files leaked by Edward Snowden.  Investigative reporting outfit ProPublica confirmed that it has been quietly working with The Guardian on a story on the subject and has recently joined with the New...

Posted by David Gerstman on July 10, 2013 8 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 07/10/2013 - Why doesn't David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times tell the complete story about the Muslim Brotherhood?...

Posted by David Gerstman on July 03, 2013 3 Comments

Not recognizing the Muslim Brotherhood's nature Two and a half years ago, the New York Times ran an editorial, Mr. Mubarak is put on notice, in which it hailed the opposition to Mubarak's rule and scolded him for failing to heed the public's will. What if, inspired...

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