[cnet] Twitter hijacked by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’
According to news.cnet.com Twitter was hijacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army” an amateur hacking group with malicious and political intent.
Here is a quote from the cnet article.
Twitter.com was down Thursday evening, and it appears that the microblogging site may have been hacked or the victim of a DNS hijacking.
The site, which was inaccessible for about an hour starting around 10 p.m. PST, was defaced with the following image before it was taken offline:
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It looks as though they wanted to get their misinformed message out. They defaced the website by replacing it with propaganda written in very poor English and all capital letters with an image of a flag in the background… I suggest next time they hack such a well trafficked American site that they use proper English and not type in all caps to get their point across. Then again twitter users aren’t big on punctuation or spelling either.
This raises an important issue about how we are still in the early days of the web, and websites aren’t really that secure at all. Should it not be the website owners responsibility to keep their website clean of malware or hackers? Most hackers are amateurs like the ones that hacked Twitter, and if someone actually was good at hacking im sure even the top web sites would be in trouble. Most websites these days are a hastley compiled absolute mess of code, written without even the slightest knowledge of security.