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Twitterer's Iranian Hijacking

You'd think an outfit like the "Iranian Cyber Army" would have better things to do with their time than messing with Twitter users. Yet, it appears as though the micro-blogging service's domain name system records were indeed altered by the group. In other words, would-be Twitterers trying to reach the site directly via name resolution services were thrown over towards a fake domain, even though Twitter itself -- and micro-blogging applications that plug into Twitter's API like TweetDeck -- were unaffected by the attack. "Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed," the Twitter team confirmed in a status tweet. "These sorts of attacks are usually limited to hacktivism activities like this one today, but imagine the potential to criminals if they could pull this off against any site requiring log in credentials, such as PayPal, eBay, MSN, Facebook," notes one security consultant.

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