theater of war and everyone is vulnerable. it doesn t matter how far away the conflict may seem. the attacks are happening more and more often. by all accounts, the attack on new york times was simple and sophisticated. this is essentially a very human attack. an attack against security awareness. reporter: sophisticated because instead of directly compromised the initial website, it went after the supply change tackling the domain name registrar. in a statement to the media melbourn i.t. said somebody using a valid user name and password changed several accounts including twitter.com and new yoyorktimes.com a breac that occurred when someone opened an e-mail or a trick to providing the credentials. anyone who wanted to access new york times was blocked.