Twitter Hacked

Looks like Twitter got hacked by The Iranian Cyber Army. For a while it displayed ‘U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To’. Which is interesting. It was a DNS hack, meaning they hacked the settings that direct ‘www.twitter.com’ to an IP address ‘203.142.198.2’ (example). I don’t know how they did it. The only way I know to change DNS settings is through the control panel on the server. I do find it reassuring that utility sites like Twitter and Google occasionally go down. Makes me feel better about crashing my own.

4 Comments

  1. Not only that, they just *invaded* Iraq too. One oil well taken over by Iranian army right now.

  2. This attack was not done using a simple control panel change. Its not an easy attack. You have to poison DNS cache . Recent DNS based vulnerabilities could be used to poison DNS caches. Lot of people are too lazy to update their software. Even security updates. We have seen a rise in DNS based vulnerabilities. I’m pretty sure this attack affected only part of the world not everyone. I recommend you use OpenDNS service ;) you will get protection from most of the threats out there.

    Peace out!.

  3. It actually was done with a simple control panel change. Someone’s email was compromised, they got the password, logged into the control panel and changed the DNS settings ‘legitimately’

    Tom Daly, chief technology officer at Dyn, a New Hampshire-based DNS company that services Twitter, said somebody using a “set of valid Twitter credentials” redirected the site.

    “From our perspective, it was a perfectly valid username-and-password combination that was logged in with,” Daily said in a telephone interview. “The only credentials that were compromised were Twitter’s.” (Wired)

    The biggest security hole is usually human error, and Twitter employees have had their email hacked before, usually thru weak passwords.

  4. I see :) ..well I didn’t read it that deep :)

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