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It quickly became clear that the "news" was not true. There had been no explosions at the White House and President Obama was fine. But a message on the wire service's Twitter account rattled investors.
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FIFA's efforts to rehabilitate its tarnished public image were dealt twin setbacks Monday, as the Twitter account of the international soccer federation was hacked and used to send a message joking about corruption. And a member of its reform committee quit, saying their work was pointless.
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The group, said to support the regime of President Bashar Assad, has attacked other news organizations' websites in recent months. This time, it got into NPR.org, The Two-Way and some of NPR's Twitter accounts.
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Contrary to the media hype, the impact of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on a European anti-spam firm was basically a local event.
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That doesn't necessarily mean that China was behind the attack. There is a possibility that North Korean hackers launched the attack from China.
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If Pyongyang is the source of a cyberattack against South Korea's computer networks, it wouldn't be the first time.
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South Korean officials say they suspect that Pyongyang could be the source of the outage, which affected three broadcasters and two banks.
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A 28-year-old computer wizard known as the Harvester, along with his online rebel friends, have hacked into a pro-regime TV station as part of their ongoing battle against the government's electronic army.