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| Hackers bring down Twitter |
| 2009-12-18 |
| HACKERS have broken in to social networking website Twitter leaving it disabled for hours. The site popular with celebrities and used by millions around the world was taken over by a group calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army early this morning. They defaced the site with their own logos and images and even posted a message boasting about the attack. Users hoping to find their latest Tweets were instead greeted by a black screen with a green flag. Above the flag, a message in Arabic read: "Hezbollah is victorious." On the flag, red Arabic writing said: "Yassin" (an Arabic name written in bold) then in smaller Arabic print "the feast of peace". Below the flag there was more Farsi writing. The hackers also wrote in English: "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army. U.S.A think they controlling and managing internet by their access, but they don't, we control and manage internet by our power..." Tens of thousands of baffled Twitter users spotted the message before it was removed. Twitter bosses later posted a message on the site which read: "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." |
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| #3 This was a cyber attack. It may have been an attack on a silly application but it was a learning experience. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-12-18 19:16 |
| #2 Twitter's API is open. Using wget and perl CGI I can post a "tweet" everytime I post something on my blog. Pretty sweet |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-12-18 18:45 |
| #1 "Oh, the HUMANITY!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-12-18 13:56 |