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The Onion Peels Back Layers of Syrian Electronic Army Twitter Hack

2013-05-10 23:33:29| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

On Wednesday, The Onion took an atypical moment to very seriously detail how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked its Twitter account.

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Syrian Internet Traffic Falls to Zero

2013-05-08 17:32:29| TechNewsWorld

Reports suggest that Syrian authorities have -- as they did last November -- disabled access to the Internet. Google and research firm Umbrella Security have reported a sudden and total plunge in Internet traffic. It is not known exactly what is going on with the Syrian Web.

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Onion's Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

2013-05-07 01:50:22| CNET News.com

Apparently, the tweets sympathetic to Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad aren't a laughing matter -- the parody news site's feed is the latest to be vandalized in ongoing attacks against news outlets. [Read more]

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Did climate change cause the Syrian uprising?

2013-03-25 22:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Christian Science Monitor: A new study on the Arab Spring and Climate Change, finds evidence to suggest that it was not merely a coincidence that the Syrian revolution began just as the entire country was still struggling to survive after the worst drought ever recorded. Between 2006 and 2011 nearly 60% of Syria experienced the worst drought ever, turning much of the countrys farmland into barren dust bowls, and resulting in a series of severe crop failures. Due to the devastating drought and subsequent lack of food and...

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