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<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1236873/Iranian-Cyber-Army-hackers-Twitter-early-morning-attack.html">Iranian Cyber Army hackers take down Twitter in early-morning attack</a>:</p> <blockquote><p> Iranian hackers brought down micro-blogging website Twitter for around two hours this morning.<br /> The attack took place at around 6am and left the site&#8217;s estimated 30million users unable to send messages or post &#8216;tweets&#8217;.<br /> The main Twitter homepage had been replaced with a black and red screen featuring an image of a green flag.<br /> The page carried the message: &#8216;This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.&#8217;</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1236873/Iranian-Cyber-Army-hackers-Twitter-early-morning-attack.html"<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/18/article-1236873-07A51E80000005DC-717_468x392.jpg" alt="image of hacked site" /><br /> The screen that replaced the main Twitter homepage for two hours this morning<br /> &#8216;The USA thinks they control and manage internet access, but they don&#8217;t. We control and manage the internet with our power, so do not try to the incite Iranian people.&#8217;</p> <p>The site reappeared around two hours later, with staff telling users: &#8216;We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.&#8217;<br /> It is believed that Twitter&#8217;s DNS records were hijacked in the attack meaning that users who were trying to visit the site were actually redirected to the new page.<br /> The DNS, which stands for Domain Name System, connects the name of a website, in this case twitter.com, to the servers which hold its contents.<br /> A short statement was issued on the company&#8217;s blog.</p> <p>It read: &#8216;Twitter&#8217;s DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed.<br /> &#8216;We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.&#8217;<br /> Websites such as Twitter and Facebook became a focal point for young, urban Iranians opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who defeated opposition candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in the presidential election.<br /> Many Iranians used Twitter to arrange demonstrations and keep up to date during the unfolding saga.<br /> According to Internet censorship monitor OpenNet Initiative, Iranians began taking to the internet in droves during the 1997-2005 presidency of Mohammad Khatami, when dozens of independent publications were shut down and journalists jailed.</p></blockquote> <div class="addtoany_share_save_container"><ul class="addtoany_list"><li><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=&amp;linkname="><img src="http://www.lemmingworks.org/weblog/wp-content/plugins/add-to-any/share_save_171_16.png" width="171" height="16" alt="Share/Bookmark"/></a></li></ul></div><p style="text-align: right"><small>Mirrored from <a href="http://www.lemmingworks.org/weblog/?p=2545" title="Read Original Post">Lemmingworks</a>.</small></p>

<p style="border: 1px solid black; padding: 3px;"><strong>Originally published at <a href="http://www.lemmingworks.org/weblog/?p=2545">Lemmingworks</a>. You can comment here or <a href="http://www.lemmingworks.org/weblog/?p=2545#comments">there</a>.</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1236873/Iranian-Cyber-Army-hackers-Twitter-early-morning-attack.html">Iranian Cyber Army hackers take down Twitter in early-morning attack</a>:</p> <blockquote><p> Iranian hackers brought down micro-blogging website Twitter for around two hours this morning.<br /> The attack took place at around 6am and left the site&#8217;s estimated 30million users unable to send messages or post &#8216;tweets&#8217;.<br /> The main Twitter homepage had been replaced with a black and red screen featuring an image of a green flag.<br /> The page carried the message: &#8216;This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.&#8217;</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1236873/Iranian-Cyber-Army-hackers-Twitter-early-morning-attack.html"<img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/18/article-1236873-07A51E80000005DC-717_468x392.jpg" alt="image of hacked site" /><br /> The screen that replaced the main Twitter homepage for two hours this morning<br /> &#8216;The USA thinks they control and manage internet access, but they don&#8217;t. We control and manage the internet with our power, so do not try to the incite Iranian people.&#8217;</p> <p>The site reappeared around two hours later, with staff telling users: &#8216;We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.&#8217;<br /> It is believed that Twitter&#8217;s DNS records were hijacked in the attack meaning that users who were trying to visit the site were actually redirected to the new page.<br /> The DNS, which stands for Domain Name System, connects the name of a website, in this case twitter.com, to the servers which hold its contents.<br /> A short statement was issued on the company&#8217;s blog.</p> <p>It read: &#8216;Twitter&#8217;s DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed.<br /> &#8216;We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.&#8217;<br /> Websites such as Twitter and Facebook became a focal point for young, urban Iranians opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who defeated opposition candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in the presidential election.<br /> Many Iranians used Twitter to arrange demonstrations and keep up to date during the unfolding saga.<br /> According to Internet censorship monitor OpenNet Initiative, Iranians began taking to the internet in droves during the 1997-2005 presidency of Mohammad Khatami, when dozens of independent publications were shut down and journalists jailed.</p></blockquote> <div class="addtoany_share_save_container"><ul class="addtoany_list"><li><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=&amp;linkname="><img src="http://www.lemmingworks.org/weblog/wp-content/plugins/add-to-any/share_save_171_16.png" width="171" height="16" alt="Share/Bookmark"/></a></li></ul></div>