Assessing the Capabilities of the Syrian Electronic Army

October 23, 2013 FROM NEXTGOV A Syrian hacking group's reported defacing of Qatari government webpages over the weekend could signal a new direction for the organization that has infiltrated Western news websites and is loyal to Bashar Assad, the civil-war-torn country's embattled president. Still, U.S. cybersecurity experts said they don't expect the so-called Syrian Electronic...