Well, I haven't been. And as far as I know, you probably haven't been either. But my local paper announced they've disabled commenting because somebody was. I know many news site comment areas are cesspools, but ours isn't totally without redeeming qualities. Besides, one of my favorite columnists posted a piece about a recent family medical emergency, and (like many others, I suspect) I wanted to post a comment of support and encouragement. Not the most pressing thing going on in the world these days, but still a sign of the times.
The Dallas Morning News was one of several large media and entertainment websites to briefly be attacked on Thanksgiving morning by hackers identifying themselves as the Syrian Electronic Army.
Websites of The Boston Globe, Canadian-based The Globe and Mail, The Independent in London and many others were affected by the attack on San Francisco-based Gigya, a service many large websites use to facilitate comments and social media logins.
http://www.dallasnews.com/...
The websites of British and North American media organizations and retailer Wal-Mart's Canadian unit were hacked on Thursday in a suspected attack by the Syrian Electronic Army, an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Among media sites hit were London newspapers the Daily Telegraph, Independent and Evening Standard. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and New York Daily News also said they had fallen victim to the hack.
http://www.reuters.com/...
According to reports from users on Twitter the affected sites included those of CNBC, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune, OK magazine, the Evening Standard, PCWorld, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent.
SEA does not appear to have actually hacked the affected websites directly, but instead pulled off the attack through Gigya, a customer identity management platform used by a large number of brands.
http://www.pcworld.com/...