This is the latest in Twitter's series of security snags. In a recent event, their web servers were misconfigured to reveal detailed internal network information. Back in July, Twitter was suffering with a bug that made it easy for anyone to access the Twitter servers directly. In an attempt to beef up its security, Twitter hired a a number of security experts including a new COO Dick Costolo Cyber-terrorism has struck again, with Twitter last night hacked by a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army. The site is now back up and running normally, but questions are being asked both about who the Iranian Cyber Army may be and how Twitter seems to be attacked so often and so easily. It's time to repeat the parody - don't use the same password for all your login accounts. Once your favorite site is hacked, your password is compromised and you have a world of insecurities to live in. On Twitter's part we can expect them nip the bud for its over 12 million users in US, before its too late. The popular microblogging Web site Twitter was hacked overnight, leaving the millions who use the site tweetless. Those who tried to access Twitter were redirected to a site that had a green flag and proclaimed "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army." The Web site was down for nearly an hour. Representatives from Twitter could not be immediately reached for comment, but the company spoke about the issue on its official Twitter page. "Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. We will update with more information soon," the company posted at about 2:30 a.m. ET Friday. It was unclear who the group Iranian Cyber Army was and if it is connected to Iran. However, Twitter has had an interesting relationship with Iran. Twitter became so fundamental in spreading news of the protests that followed that the U.S. State Department asked the company to delay a planned shutdown for maintenance.
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