[Sophos]SEA attempts to hack Facebook and other MarkMonitor domain customers

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SEA attempts to hack Facebook and other MarkMonitor domain customers

The group known as the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) attempted to commandeer the DNS records of Facebook, but were thwarted by DNS provider MarkMonitor. Are the basic protocols up to the task of protecting us in 2014?
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