Syrian Electronic Army attacks Washington Post, CNN and Time via plug-in

Within days of the New York Times website suffering an outage which was widely reported as being down to another cyber attack, although the NYT itself insists it was actually an internal issue following system maintenance, media sites belonging to CNN, Time and the Washington Post have been attacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SRA) in support of President Bashar al-Assad. All three sites concerned apparently used a single link recommendation service called Outbrain, and it seems that a social engineering attack there led to the successful breach.