A group identifying itself as the Iranian Cyber Army hacked into the micro blogging service Twitter, reportedly tampering with the site’s DNS server records. The group defaced the Twitter home page as well as the home page of an Iranian website, mowjcamp.org, redirecting the traffic from both sites to its own site.
This hack made it temporarily impossible for some Twitter users to login to their accounts, raising the question, among others: just how secure are the websites that we visit, if they can be so easily hacked?
Of course, Twitter is up and running now, and co-founder Biz Stone put a message on the Twitter company blog stating that although some Twitter accounts had been temporarily compromised, the damage done by the hack has been fixed and the site is once again secure.
Even so, the question of how the group was able to hack into the site in the first place has still not been answered. There is no evidence, however, that either Iran or Hezbollah was responsible.
Questions were raised initially because of a comment made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who recently told a senior U.S. government official that: “ Using the Internet and Twitter against the Iranian regime is something extraordinary that the U.S. can do.”
Anyone with any lingering concerns about the security of their account should reset their account password.
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