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For the second time in two weeks, the website of the ‘New York Times’ Tuesday stopped working normally. But unlike the August 14, the problem is not the result of an internal error but an attack led by the Syrian Electronic Army : a group of computer close to the regime which has shot down in the last months the pages of various media.

The attack was confirmed Tuesday by U.S. newspaper spokeswoman, Eileen Murphy, who explained in several forums that the problem was “the result of an external attack.” But Murphy did not say whether the group was responsible Syrian issue nor when it would be possible to access the web normally.

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admitted in an internal message to the executive Marc Frons, who asked his employees to stop “emailing sensitive” and revealed that they had been attacked “by the Syrian Electronic Army or someone who makes every effort to like them “.

Experts have confirmed that the attack is reflected in the Domain Name System (DNS its acronym in English): a type of phone that directs computers to the Internet pages. At modify the DNS of ‘New York Times’ , the Syrian group may redirect your readers to any web page and give the impression that their servers have been attacked.

type the address of the ‘New York Times’ in the browser, some readers are directed against his will to the pages of companies based in Russia or Syria. These include a website with the logo of the group responsible for the attack, whose leaders are in favor of the regime of Bashar Assad.

As reported by Mashable, the group agreed to the page of the ‘New York Times’ after gaining control of the company Melbourne IT, which also have their domains registered companies like Twitter, AOL, Yahoo, Google or Microsoft. “Who gets access who registers a domain you can redirect web traffic and email Internet to reach these pages to any other server,” said HD Moore Tuesday, expert security firm Rapid7.

Syrian group also said on Tuesday that it had taken control of the domain of Twitter. But for now this point has hardly affected the social network service. The company has said that the problem is fixed and has admitted that for a few minutes hanging images users have stopped working.

Syrian Electronic Army operates at least since the spring of 2011 and is run by the Damascus regime but the Syrian president has recognized his achievements at least once.

According to some sources, the domain of the Syrian group recorded it in May 2011 Syrian Computer Society: official institution presided Asad just before coming to power. But no one dares to say that their members receive a salary from the regime or are directed by its security forces.

Those who have studied their actions are portrayed as a group of civilians who leave comments Asad for Facebook or YouTube forums. But their ranks are computer capable of breaching computer security as relevant media such as Reuters, NPR, Financial Times and the BBC.

Its most striking blow what occurred in April this year when they agreed to the Twitter profile U.S. agency AP and wrote that Barack Obama was wounded after two explosions in the White House. Some phrases that triggered the instant collapse of the Exchange until the denial occurred AP.