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Peter romar, 36, a syrian national affiliated with the syrian electronic army sea, made his initial appearance this afternoon before u. Military manuals this is our free us military manuals section. Proregime cyber operationsthe syrian electronic army. Soon after the group claimed to have already successfully penetrated many central repositories, and tweeted a screenshot of what is purported to show. Iran has built an army of cyberproxies jordan brunner. Keywords cyber crime, new york times, nyt, syria, hackers. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global political power into a period of unprecedented complexity. The associated press news agency is the latest western news organisation to fall victim to the syrian electronic army s cyber war, with a false tweet about an explosion at. The syrian electronic army has become notorious for such hacks over the past few years, including attacks that compromised paypal, microsoft and facebook. The syrian electronic army hacked into harvard universitys homepage, replacing photos on the website with an image of assad and the words syrian electronic army were here. In every aspect of international affairs, digitally enabled actors are changing the way the world works and disrupting the institutions that once held a monopoly on power.
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