Twitter was hacked and down. It was defaced with the message below

The message read:

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;)
Take Care.

Well, Twitter does not have the best security issues records. There have been several security incidences in the past- their web servers were misconfigured to reveal detailed internal network information, admin interface having a password of ‘password’ on one account, and the well-known Twitter doc incident.

Twitter hired a new COO, Dick Costolo, as well as a number of other high-level engineers, including security experts, in a bid to get rid of such security problems. It was expected that Twitter would be able to get rid of vulnerability to security problems.

Update: Twitter.com is back. The company updated its status blog saying: “Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.”

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