As you already know, Twitter suffered an attack last night and the site was hijacked for a number of hours. A group known as the “Iranian Cyber Army” took control of Twitter for a period of time and it was apparent, as their logo and images graced the homepage when users visited.
Last night we received a very vague picture of what caused the incident, as Twitter stated “Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight.” Today however, we have a more clear idea of what exactly happened.
Twitter stated “Last night, DNS settings for the Twitter web site were hijacked. From 9:46pm to 11pm PST, approximately 80% of Traffic to Twitter.com was redirected to other web sites.”
Twitter has suffered a number of stability issues before but never any as bad as this. For a site of its size to be so susceptible to a complete hijacking is almost laughable. The site is getting a good amount of criticism right now for the incident but whether or not that will motivate change remains to be seen.
Related posts:
