Invinciblebrain.com » 12-17-2009 http://invinciblebrain.com behold the power of ideas! Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:05:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Invinciblebrain.com http://invinciblebrain.com/feed-logo.png http://invinciblebrain.com 122 130 Invinciblebrain.com - http://invinciblebrain.com Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army” http://invinciblebrain.com/whats-making-news/twitter-hacked-defaced-by-%e2%80%9ciranian-cyber-army%e2%80%9d.php#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:53:53 +0000 InvincibleBrain http://invinciblebrain.com/?p=495 It was right around 10 pm EST 17th December 2009, that Twitter was hacked and defaced with the message below. The site was offline for a while.I was looking into this and awaiting on a response from Twitter.

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.

Now after doing a little Research in to the subject the fact which came up was..No!!! twitter is not hacked it seems that only the namespaces of twitter have been hacked.
Running a tracepath on twitter returned

  • $ tracepath http://www.twitter.com
  • 1: local-khan.local (192.168.0.100) 0.251ms pmtu 1500
  • 1: 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.897ms
  • 1: 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.479ms
  • 2: 10.244.144.1 (10.244.144.1) 8.335ms
  • 3: ip68-0-128-113.tc.ph.cox.net (68.0.128.113) 8.431ms
  • 4: 70.169.76.229 (70.169.76.229) 24.198ms asymm 6
  • 5: langbbr01-ae0.r2.la.cox.net (68.1.0.232) 35.657ms asymm 8
  • 6: cr2-cr1.lax009.internap.net (66.79.146.206) 36.178ms asymm 10
  • 7: lax009-phx007-832-cr1.phx007.internap.net (66.79.147.182) 40.415ms asymm 8
  • 8: cr2-cr1.phx007.internap.net (66.79.147.174) 46.740ms asymm 9
  • 9: dal005-phx007-833-cr1.dal005.internap.net (66.79.147.177) 54.298ms asymm 7
  • 10: dal005-tor003-1160-cr1.tor003.pnap.internap.net (66.79.147.230) 86.102ms asymm 7
  • 11: tor001-tor003-769-core1.tor001.internap.net (66.79.153.34) 98.458ms asymm 9
  • 12: border1.te9-1-bbnet2.tor001.pnap.net (70.42.24.196) 94.665ms asymm 9
  • 13: netfirms-1.border1.tor001.pnap.net (70.42.26.54) 104.351ms asymm 10

It seems that the nameservers for twitter have some redirect in effect or some sort of server-side DNS cache poisoning.
Lets see whats the twitter has to say about the same on their blog.

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