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Twitter Was Owned.. No it was a Compromised DNS trick!
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Internet, News, hacking on December 18, 2009
Today Morning Twitter website was out of service for two hours and the reason of this service disruption is a DNS-attack. Many users thought that the website was compromised by hackers from “Iranian cyber army” by exploiting WordPress vulnerabilities but that was not the case, the attack was made on the DNS server by redirecting users attempting to enter Twitter website to Hackers Website IP address.
The Twitter Team posted the following on their Blog:
As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter’s DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed. As some noticed, Twitter.com was redirected for a while but API and platform applications were working. We will update with more information and details once we’ve investigated more fully.
This is not the first DNS attack we read about in the news there were a big number of incidents that are related to the DNS record and it is now very important to start using and implementing the DNSSec to protect the DNS servers.
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What’s wrong with Twitter?
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Cybercrime & Hacking, Internet, News, Social Networking, Web Security on August 9, 2009
On the 6th of August Twitter went down for a pretty long period. After a while a brief message was added on the Twitter status says they’re fighting off a DDOS attack right now. Well the most interesting that the distributed denial-of-service attack also affected Facebook, LiveJournal and Google’s Blogger.
The idea of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the sites is that computers have been compromised by a viruses or other malware and instructed by the Hacker to visit the specific Web sites all at the same time and repeatedly. The barrage of connection requests overwhelms the target sites, making it so that legitimate Web traffic can’t get through.
So this attack requires tens of thousands of machines in which all forms a botnet and in a few seconds can turn any website dawn, as the case of (Finjan report “Your PC might be traded online– without you knowing about it!”).
To secure yourself from being a part of a botnet network is to install an antivirus with the latest signature and in some time check the netstat command on windows to see if there is any unusual connection with your pc.
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