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Cluley pointed out that although the hacker group calls itself the Iranian Cyber Army, this does not necessarily mean they are from Iran. However, he pointed out that\u00a0Twitter <\/span>was widely used by anti-government protesters in Iran earlier this year, and that Twitter delayed planned maintenance to allow Iranians to continue to share information over the service.<\/p>\n Part of the hacker message from the Iranian Cyber Army read: \u201cThe USA thinks they control and manage internet access, but they don\u2019t. We control and manage the internet with our power, so do not try to the [sic] incite Iranian people.\u201d<\/p>\n Cluley expressed relief, however, that \u2018all\u2019 that happened was that Twitter users were taken to a site displaying a political message: \u201cJust imagine what could have occurred if they had pointed people to a phishing site posing as Twitter (designed to steal login names and passwords) rather than a political message?\u201d<\/p>\n In a brief blog entry, Twitter\u2019s Biz Stone said that the Twitter DNS records were compromised by an unauthorised party.<\/p>\n Cluley explained that this does not necessarily mean that the Twitter servers were breached by the \u2018Iranian Cyber Army\u2019, but that someone managed to somehow change the DNS look-up for twitter.com.<\/p>\n Although this of course raises the question of how the hackers managed to change the Twitter DNS records\u2026<\/p>\n Infosecurity (UK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 18 December 2009 A hacker group called \u2018Iranian Cyber Army\u2019 hacked Twitter for an hour early on 18 December, redirecting users to a website containing a green flag and Arabic writing. Graham Cluley at Sophos, said in his blog: \u201cFortunately there isno indication at this point that the page was carrying malicious code, and this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":16530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,845,34,922],"tags":[2588,2589,2590],"class_list":["post-16529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran_","category-scitech","category-usa","category-world","tag-iranian-cyber-army","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-hacked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}