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Iran:Twitter hacked by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’

Written byFred Petrossian

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Posted 18 December 2009 10:02 GMT

Twitter was hacked overnight by so called Iranian Cyber Army. Neersy tweeted [fa] that this group is a pro Islamic State one and its mission is attacking green movement's (opposition) sites and blogs.

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  • Jim Hacker

    It is amazing to see how easily hackers are getting account login information. Whom ever was responsible for the DNS information is probably going to be getting a talking to! Changing DNS records like like changing a phone number under a popular businesses listing in a phonebook. Still, changing DNS is one of the oldest tricks in the books!

    18 December 2009, 14:54 pm
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