Unofficial Guide to South By Southwest 2014: Syrian Electronic Army Wuz Here

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Syrian Electronic Army Wuz Here

On April 23, 2012, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Twitter account of the Associated Press and posted a tweet proclaiming that President Obama had been injured in a terrorist attack. The stock market took an immediate hit, shooting down 1 percent before recovering. That’s far the SEA’s only conquest, having successfully hacked NPR, the Guardian, the Daily Dot, and the Onion in the last year alone. The trend raises serious concerns for digital newsrooms. In the age of Anonymous, how do you objectively report on hackers—and hacker culture—without opening up yourself, your company, and your sources to potential vulnerabilities? This panel will address the dangers lurking in the darker Web.

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Speakers

Tom Cochran

Chief Technology OfficerAtlantic Media CompanyTom is the Chief Technology Officer at Atlantic Media, publisher of The Atlantic, Quartz, Government Executive and National Journal. As CTO, he is charged with leading the successful execution of business strategy through industry-leading... Read More →

Parmy Olson

WriterForbesI track people who are disrupting the world of mobile technology. I'm the author of "We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency", (Little Brown, 2012) which The New York Times called a "lively, startling book that reads... Read More →

Austin Powell

Managing EditorThe Daily DotAustin Powell is the co-editor of The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology, a 30-year retrospective published UT Press. He currently serves as the managing editor of the Daily Dot, an online newspaper devoted to Web communities. His work has been published... Read More →

Cole Stryker

WriterGiant MediaCole Stryker is a writer and media strategist at Giant Media. He is the author of Epic Win for Anonymous, the first book to tell the story of the Internet's memetic playground called 4chan and the hacktivist group Anonymous, from which it spawned. He also authored... Read More →

Monday March 10, 2014 9:30am - 10:30am
Austin Convention Center, Room 18ABCD 500 E Cesar Chavez St