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By: Twitter Falls Victim To DNS Redirect

Twitter Falls Victim To DNS Redirect — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:33:46 +0000

[...] A DNS hijacking attack left Twitter temporarily affected for about an hour early on Friday. The initial attack has left many users scratching their heads while spreading the belief that Twitter’s servers themselves were commandeered by hackers in the name of the “Iranian Cyber Army”. Not so. It now seems that Twitter’s DNS records were altered. That means surfers trying to reach the website directly via name resolution services were thrown over towards a fake domain, while the site itself and micro-blogging applications that plugged into Twitter’s API – such as TweetDeck or mobile phone apps – were unaffected by the attack. A on Twitter’s blog explains: As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed. As some noticed, Twitter.com was redirected for a while but API and platform applications were working. We will update with more information and details once we’ve investigated more fully.Rik Ferguson, a security consultant at Trend Micro, explained that this type of DNS hijacking usually involves compromising the systems at the registrar responsible for the DNS records of the victim company before altering the relevant DNS records, in a blog posting here… [...]

By: Iranian “Cyber Army” Strikes at China’s Search Engine Giant, Chinese Hackers Retaliate - VirusDB.INFO

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:39:15 +0000

[...] login credentials to the target site’s registrar account, quite similar to the DNS hacking they did to [...]

By: Anti-Virus & Anti-Malware website. » Iranian “Cyber Army” Strikes at China’s Search Engine Giant, Chinese Hackers Retaliate

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:40:45 +0000

[...] the group staged to obtain the login credentials to the target site’s registrar account, quite similar to the DNS hacking they did to [...]

By: Iranian Cyber Army Strikes at China’s Search Engine Giant, Chinese Hackers Retaliate | Malware Blog | Trend Micro

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:24:40 +0000

[...] the group staged to obtain the login credentials to the target site’s registrar account, quite similar to the DNS hacking they did to [...]

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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:22:53 +0000

[...] Read about the subject on the TrendMicro Countermeasures Blog. [...]

By: دنیای زیبای وب » Blog Archive » بیشتر بدانیم: توییتر هک نشد!

دنیای زیبای وب » Blog Archive » بیشتر بدانیم: توییتر هک نشد! — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:27:31 +0000

[...] شرکت نرم افزاری ترندمایکرو درباره ی این اتفاق بود(اینجا). تیتر کاملا مشخص کننده ی اتفاق بود: “توییتر هک [...]

By: Twitter’s DNS Hacked! (Washington Post)- DNS Monthly

Twitter’s DNS Hacked! (Washington Post)- DNS Monthly — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:41:55 +0000

[...] Twitter’s DNS service is provided by Manchester, N.H. based Dyn Inc. Tom Daly, chief technology officer at Dyn, said the incident was not the result of a security failure on its services. Daly said it appears someone changed Twitter’s DNS records to point visitors to a different Internet address using the proper account credentials assigned to Twitter (image above courtesy Trend Micro). [...]

By: Ataque del Ciber Ejército Iraní a Twitter | Soxial Media

Ataque del Ciber Ejército Iraní a Twitter | Soxial Media — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:01:44 +0000

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By: Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army” | Colorado Springs SEO

Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army” | Colorado Springs SEO — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:44:04 +0000

[...] trust website claimed that Twitter was not hacked and that the recent ‘hacking attempt’ was an issue of that of a 3rd party Twitter partner which opened up a DNS [...]

By: Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army” | Denver SEO & Phoenix SEO Company

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:24:29 +0000

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