SSCC 202 – They hacked the US Army? Are you SURE? [PODCAST]

Join Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for this week’s security podcast. Apple, Microsoft, patching, hacking the army (sort of), and 49 arrests in a Europol action against bank fraudsters!

Syrian Electronic Army attacks the Washington Post again, hijacks mobile site

Part of the mobile website of the Washington Post was compromised briefly on Thursday by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacker group, in an attack that redirected traffic to a site with anti-US and anti-media messages.

Syrian Electronic Army uses Taboola ad to hack Reuters (again)

Code dynamically inserted into Reuters web pages by content serving company, Taboola, appears to have been poisoned by the Syrian Electronic Army in order to redirect visitors to another page under the hackers’ control. It highlights the need for websites to consider security in a broad context and to not rely solely on traditional server-based defenses.