Harvard website hacked by Syrian protesters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15061377
Harvard University has had its website hacked in what appears to be a “sophisticated” Syrian-related attack.
Along with a picture of Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, the hacked home page showed a message saying the “Syrian Electronic Army Were Here”.
A further message made terror threats against the United States and criticised its opposition to the Assad regime.
Harvard said this has been the work of a “sophisticated individual or group”.
“The university’s homepage was compromised by an outside party this morning. We took down the site for several hours in order to restore it. The attack appears to have been the work of a sophisticated individual or group,” said a Harvard spokesman.
The website was hacked on Monday morning by what appeared to be sympathisers of President Assad of Syria, with a picture of the president in military uniform appearing in front of a Syrian flag.
This was linked to another image of Syrian national colours, with a message accusing the United States of involvement in the uprisings against President Assad.
It told readers: “This site has been breached to spread our message even if illegally.”
The message, claimed on this webpage as coming from the Syrian Cyber Army, accused the United States of supporting a “policy of killing” in Syria.
In fragmented English, it also carried a threat of violent attack.
“Do you support the war on Syria? If you are you, as well as the following Syria’s population of 23 million people. This means 23 million mobile bomb. Imagine what we could do.”
A Harvard spokesman suggested there had been a pattern of a growing number of such electronic attacks.
“Recent months have seen a rise in frequency and sophistication of these attacks, with hacking groups increasingly on the offensive and targeting news media, government and education websites,” said a Harvard spokesman.
“We are analysing this event and will use the findings to improve our security practices for an environment that is seeing escalating threats.”
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i like this..they know the nexus of evil resides at harvard..nice work..
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Seems to me that anymore, it’s a dangerous proposition to just throw any kind of shit out into cyberspace. Anyone can catch it and throw it back at you.
Harvard knows the game-plan…they help plan it!
Follow the money and the “schemes” and Harvard or Georgetown will always show up.
you and me know it int
Now that I think of it, I wonder what kind of ‘technology” Harvard passed on to Syria in the recent past that it may need a ‘hacker’ excuse for….
tech transfer via hacking?
Probably means that the tech was given freely. But they need to have a patsy for how they got the knowledge….. Thus “hacking” can and may be used in the event something leaks.
those dastardly syrian cyber armies!