Twitter.com DNS hijacked?
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;twitter.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
twitter.com. 1901 IN A 74.217.128.160
;;; QUESTION SECTION:
;160.128.217.74.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR
;; ANSWER SECTION:
160.128.217.74.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN PTR w-160.netfirms.com.
Was wondering why this popped up instead of the Twitter site before:
My good friend Dylan Reeve tells me that the "Iranian Cyber Army" may be behind the DNS hijack but I don't get that page at the moment, only a PNAP hosted one when I try to load twitter.com.
Update I Fat-fingered a PTR DNS query, and wrongly ended up at www.perfectworld.com - fixed.
Update II Biz Stone at Twitter confirms that it was a DNS hijack. He doesn't believe any accounts were compromised.
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Comment by freitasm, on 18-DEC-2009 21:43
It wasn't Twitter - it was its DNS records, which are probably maintained by a hosting company, or these folks used a DNS injection. Nothing on their server...
Comment by Super Sonic Undies, on 18-DEC-2009 22:48
Well the site was hacked by (not kidding) the Iranian Cyber Army with threats against the US. I should have taken a screenie but thought it would be all over the web. Was down for about 45 minutes or so.
Comment by Super Sonic Undies, on 18-DEC-2009 22:48
Well the site was hacked by (not kidding) the Iranian Cyber Army with threats against the US. I should have taken a screenie but thought it would be all over the web. Was down for about 45 minutes or so.
Comment by John Jr, on 20-DEC-2009 12:59
It reminds me Malaysiangp hijacked by Brainwash
Comment by Rory, on 23-FEB-2010 03:24
Wow...I hope this one will serve as a warning to the public that sharing too much info. online is not a safe pratice!
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Comment by bvidulich, on 18-DEC-2009 20:53
Good thing you posted that, because I was starting to wonder if my internet had something wrong with it.
I do wonder how it is that Twitter has such poor system performance & poor security that it can be hijacked so easily. The website also seems to say that it is overloaded (Twitter error) a lot. I would have thought that being such a popular website that they would have better infrastructure to support all the users, especially during peak periods and have adequate security so that service remains available to all users.