While the Syrian government is busy shutting down the Internet in the country when it suits it, it's also busy fighting a war online as well.

Granted, the only things getting hurt are Twitter accounts, but the Syrian Electronic Army has been busy hacking sites and taking over Twitter accounts, with rather elaborate schemes.

The latest victim is the Financial Times, whose Twitter account has been taken over by the pro-Assad hackers. The Financial Times' Tech Blog was also compromised and defaced by the hackers.

The Financial Times is working to regain control. The latest tweet from one of the Twitter accounts compromised disclosed the hack, but there hasn't been any more info.

"Apologies, we have been hacked and you may see tweets that are not from the FT. We are working on getting this fixed," the tweet reads.

The FT press office has more details. "Various FT blogs and social media accounts have been compromised by hackers and we are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible," it tweeted.

The tech blog seems to be back up and running, but it was inaccessible for a period. The Syrian Electronic Army has been behind a series of hacks, mostly on social media accounts on news organizations, including The Onion's.

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