U.S. attacks Syria, hackers attack America?

If the United States attacks Syria then the Syrian Electronic Army, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, may launch another hacking attack on American web sites.

This is the same group that caused Internet users trying to access The New York Times website to be steered to servers controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army. The Syrian group tricked Domain Name System employees into giving up their passwords.

It’s a ragtap group, including teenagers, who plaster pro-regime propaganda across some of the Internet's most trafficked sites, a U.S. official told CNN.

In April, the SEA caused a brief panic and stock market drop when it hacked the Associated Press Twitter feed and sent a fake message:  "Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured."

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