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Twitter had its DNS hijacked last night, and many travelling to its page got a page from the "Iranian Cyber Army" that claims responsibility for the cyber prank.  (Source: Gizmodo)
Site has now returned to business as usual

Twitter is one of the hottest web businesses online with everyone from regular Joes to celebrities logging on and microblogging.  Last night, Twitter.com went down for several hours -- a notable event.  While some were redirected to host PNAP's Perfect World advertisement page, others found themselves redirected to a rather alarming alternative -- a page from the "Iranian Cyber Army" claiming responsibility for the attack.

It appears that ICA may be behind what appears to be a DNS hijacking.  The group posted a message stating:

Iranian Cyber Army
THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY
iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM
U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don't, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….
NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;)
Take Care.

Of course, in reality it's unclear whether Iranians performed the attack at all or if it was just internet pranksters.  So far details are scarce.  Twitter released a short statement, commenting, "We are working to recover from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.  Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon."

DNS hijacking does not mean that Twitter itself was compromised in any way.  Though some feared that a worse attack was afoot and advocating that you change your passwords that resemble that of your Twitter account, it now appears that those concerns were overstated.

Twitter is now back in action and appears to be back to normal.  That's good news for microbloggers and bad news for ISA -- whoever they may be.

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Yes!
By bradmshannon on 12/18/2009 8:14:26 AM , Rating: 4
Set us up the bomb! All your base are belong to us!




RE: Yes!
By jonmcc33 on 12/18/2009 8:27:55 AM , Rating: 3
Infidels! Durka durka jihad jihad!


RE: Yes!
By Proxes on 12/18/2009 9:56:40 AM , Rating: 4
SILENCE! I KILL YOU!


RE: Yes!
By Trisagion on 12/18/09, Rating: 0
RE: Yes!
By jonmcc33 on 12/18/09, Rating: -1
RE: Yes!
By Inkjammer on 12/18/2009 1:05:44 PM , Rating: 2
RE: Yes!
By jonmcc33 on 12/18/2009 11:08:16 PM , Rating: 2
And if I can get someone to watch "Team America: World Police" because of it then I don't care!


RE: Yes!
By Proxes on 12/18/2009 1:06:58 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah I know. I was mixing it up. sigh


RE: Yes!
By therealnickdanger on 12/18/2009 8:28:24 AM , Rating: 4
In A.D. 2009 war was beginning.


RE: Yes!
By werfu on 12/18/09, Rating: -1
RE: Yes!
By werfu on 12/18/2009 8:52:59 AM , Rating: 2
If I remember well the first european city to get down would be the Vatican and it would fall under a chemical or biological attack.

BTW, is there anybody who got the address of these mofos? We defaced their sites too. Let's play who piss the farther!


RE: Yes!
By omnicronx on 12/18/2009 9:46:21 AM , Rating: 5
quote:
Nostradamus has said that it was the "yellows" who started the third great war.
Only thing scary here is that people want to believe in these prophecies so much, that they will falsely inteprete his poems over and over again. Here is the exact line mentioning the 'yellows and reds' (not just yellows).
quote:
Vn peu de temps les temples des couleurs De blanc & noir des deux entre meslee: Rouges & launes leur embleront les leurs, Sang, terre, peste, faim, feu d'eau affollee.
Or in english:
quote:
For a little while the temples of the colors of white and black shall be itermmgled of the two: reds and yellows shall take away theirs, blood, arth, pestilence, famine, fire bewitched by water.
Now this could be interpreted many ways, one reads the word yellows and reds and of course he must be talking about ethnicity! Forget the fact he lived through the early to mid 1500's during the time when Spain (whose colours are yellow and red) were increasingly becoming a strong world power.. Nope he must be talking about events that have yet to happen 500 years in the future..


RE: Yes!
By omnicronx on 12/18/2009 10:00:55 AM , Rating: 3
Of course I'm not saying my interpretation is correct either, I'm just showing that this could easily be talking about something based on events that were happening during his lifetime.

I would also like to point out that all of his work was written in french, and it is the sloppy English translation that has spawned so many of the 'predictions' you hear about today. (like every single 911 prediction, most of which is not even in his texts, for example the two 'metal birds' or whatever he supposedly wrote was never part of any text)


RE: Yes!
By jonmcc33 on 12/18/2009 11:57:03 AM , Rating: 2
Then again, do you really think someone could predict something 500 years in the future?


RE: Yes!
By Flail on 12/18/2009 12:03:26 PM , Rating: 2
If the Mayans can do it, why not Nostradamus?


RE: Yes!
By MastermindX on 12/18/2009 12:59:51 PM , Rating: 3
Mayans predicted that the world would end in 2012...

Nostradamus predicted a 29 years war starting... Now?

Somehow, I see someone being wrong here. :P


RE: Yes!
By jonmcc33 on 12/18/2009 11:14:16 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
Mayans predicted that the world would end in 2012...


No they didn't.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-ma...


RE: Yes!
By scrapsma54 on 12/18/2009 10:31:54 AM , Rating: 1
You are a disgrace to your planet!


RE: Yes!
By aqwan135 on 12/20/2009 7:59:46 PM , Rating: 1
http://ta.gg/3yu

fr ee sh i pp ing

(jordan shoes) $32

(air max) $34

+++

wow


LMAO
By AnnihilatorX on 12/18/2009 9:02:35 AM , Rating: 3
RE: LMAO
By tastyratz on 12/18/2009 9:07:21 AM , Rating: 2
yea like google wont cancel THAT account quick.
In reality this is probably some 14 year old in their parents basement.

I have seen better translations by generic web page translators. If they want us to take them seriously instead of giggle and point maybe they should translate.


RE: LMAO
By jonmcc33 on 12/18/2009 9:10:27 AM , Rating: 2
Did you pull that from the article? Now THAT is slick! <rolls eyes>

Time to subscribe that to as many porn sites as possible. Iranians love their porn!


RE: LMAO
By AnnihilatorX on 12/18/2009 9:17:18 AM , Rating: 2
Well in any case it doesn't take a 3 year old to guess the authenticity of this 'operation' by a 'professional army'


RE: LMAO
By jonmcc33 on 12/18/2009 12:01:12 PM , Rating: 2
I wouldn't call the actions of actual Muslim extremist terrorists to be a "professional army" either.


Oh the humanity!
By IcePickFreak on 12/18/2009 9:54:20 AM , Rating: 5
This is a horrendous act!

And I'm referring to the part about Twitter getting back online.




Please enter your comment subject
By sirius4k on 12/18/2009 9:39:51 AM , Rating: 2
MySpace, Facebook and YouTube be next.




By Golgatha on 12/18/2009 12:40:57 PM , Rating: 2
Then comes the final attack. A DDoS on Mytwitface!!


By foolsgambit11 on 12/19/2009 9:48:22 PM , Rating: 3
Why isn't Twitter's comment on this outage less than 140 characters?




I make raps for you
By ixelion on 12/18/2009 9:25:00 AM , Rating: 2
U.S.A. Think They be Controllin'
And Managin' Internet By Their Trollin',
But THey Don't, We be Controlin'
By Our Power - So be tryin' To
Stimulate Iranian People To.

NOW WHOS THE SUCKA ON THE EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?

WE PUSH THEM IN ;)

BITCHES.




Terrorists?!?
By danobrega on 12/18/2009 11:04:25 AM , Rating: 2
What are the terrorists trying to do? Makes us laugh until we are afraid? Don't they teach them terrorist tactics in terrorist schools? jeezz...




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