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Twitter was Hacked...
NightShade03
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Anyone else catch this story this morning?
Twitter outage via DNS hijacking
There really doesn't seem like much of a surprise from this....there is always a way in.
Twitter outage via DNS hijacking
There really doesn't seem like much of a surprise from this....there is always a way in.
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RobertKaucher
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My question is who does their DNS hosting and what was the way in? I bet it was something as simple as an un patched system.
Here is what the site looks like that Twitter was being redirected to:
Twitter Status - Working on site outage
DNS attack hijacks Twitter ? The Register -
OptionsNightShade03
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According to network world Twitter uses: Dynect Platform - CDN Manager, GSLB, DNS anycast | dyn.com for their DNS hosting which is actually what got compromised.
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Nice! That's what I use for my dynamic DNS for home. So was it an unpatched sysem or did a Twitter admin have abc123 as the password for the web interface? We will probably never know...
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They don't know yet (or I should say they haven't disclosed yet...).