Attack of crackers on Twitter      

18 December 2009   |   By Anton   |   Views: 200   |   Comments 0   |   Print  
Internet users who tried to come this morning to the start page service miñroblogowej Twitter instead tweet³ saw the words "Iranian Cyber Army". The perpetrator of the incident are yet unknown. According to Twitter manipulated DNS entries so that after calling twitter.com address you do not hit the pages of the service, but the server is controlled by the crackers. Fortunately, the Twitter servers are not attacked. Meanwhile, DNS entries have been corrected and the right side is reachable.

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Persons using Twitter via the API only belongs to him and the client saw no problems.
Representatives of Twitter does not indicate how it has to manipulate the DNS entries. It is possible that one of the administrators of service attack, the victim of phishing, giving access to configuration data entries in the DNS registrar. From the week, many companies engaged in IT security record attempt this type of increased attacks on administrators. Already last year we witnessed a similar wave of phishing scams, which try to attract originators access data on DVRs. Appropriate warning issued if an organization ICANN.
 
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