Syria's online troops wage counter-revolutionary cyber war
Sunday, June 9, 2013 - 07:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Sometimes, attacks in Syria's bloody civil war start not with a bullet or a bomb blast, but with an innocuous-looking email. A message pings into an inbox, apparently from a friend or colleague. The recipient clicks a link, and suddenly hackers are one step closer to snatching sensitive information - including passwords to a company's social media sites.