December 18, 2009, 10:26AM
Twitter Outage A DNS Hack
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Microblogging site Twitter went offline for
a while Friday after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army
apparently managed to change DNS records, redirecting traffic to
another Web page. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
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Comments
Yes, it was a DNS attack for sure. This is the alert we got when their DNS was changed:
"
Modifications:
3a4
< twitter.com has address 128.121.146.100
< twitter.com has address 168.143.162.52
> twitter.com has address 66.147.242.88
"
All from the free Sucuri Network Monitor: http://blog.sucuri.net/2009/12/twitter-defacement.html
Great stuff. Very interesting news!
(Web design company)
Thsi is really a shocking news for the internet world,Twitter is now one of the most popular micro-blogging site & it was hacked means what can we expect on small sites protection.I'm visiting the computerworld site to know more about it.Thanks for informing.
David,