The Guardian became the latest publication to be hit by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army.
A previous attack on the Associated Press caused USA stocks to dip.
Security experts have said Twitter itself needs to take more action to ensure its users are protected.
An email sent by Twitter to news organisations on Monday urged them to take a close look at their internal measures for dealing with social media.
Advice included making sure passwords were more than 20 characters long and made up of random strings of letters and numbers.
The social network also advised having just "one computer to use for Twitter".
"This helps keep your Twitter password from being spread around," the site added.
"Don't use this computer to read email or surf the web, to reduce the chances of malware infection."
Security researcher Rik Ferguson, from TrendMicro, told the BBC this particular piece of advice was somewhat unworkable.
"The point of Twitter is that it's instant, and you can react instantly.
"If you have to run back to the office to get to a particular computer to use Twitter, that's obviously going to impact upon its use."
Source: BBC
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