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]
Twitter Outage A DNS Hack
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Donald Sears
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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]
dd on
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