New York Post was hacked from the within, worker fired after offensive articles posted on-line • Graham Cluley

The New York Post made headlines at this time when it revealed a collection of incendiary and offensive articles on-line.

Depending in your political viewpoint, it’s possible you’ll nicely say “What’s new?”.

But on this event the Murdoch-owned tabloid’s web site was significantly disagreeable – calling for the assassination of political figures like Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and spreading racial slurs.

And, in fact, in a blink of an eye fixed the offending tales had been being promoted by the newspaper’s Twitter account.

Please word – I’m selecting to not republish a number of the most vile issues which had been posted beneath the NY Post‘s banner.

A Post spokesperson stated it was investigating the reason for the incident, and had “taken down the vile and reprehensible content posted by the hackers.”

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So, what had occurred? Had the New York Post gone barmy? Had they been hacked?

It transpires that the newspaper had not fallen sufferer to exterior hackers as had first been suspected, however as a substitute a rogue worker who had entry to the web site’s content material administration system (CMS) was accountable.

“The New York Post’s investigation indicates that the unauthorized conduct was committed by an employee, and the employee has been terminated.”

It’s unclear from what has been shared to this point whether or not the rogue worker had professional entry to the nypost.com web site’s backend, which runs on the WordPress VIP platform, or in the event that they exploited another person’s login credentials.

Once once more, an organization has been very publicly exploited by a malicious member of their very own employees. Never underestimate the dangers your corporation can face from a rogue insider. Hackers have to interrupt their method into your organisation, your staff have already been granted entry to your inner methods and knowledge.

Readers with lengthy reminiscences might recall that in 2013, the Facebook and Twitter accounts of the New York Post had been hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.

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