The Syrian Electronic Army made headlines today for attacks on the New York Times, but Twitter may have also attracted the group's attention. In a tweet, the hackers claimed to have gained access to the DNS servers for Twitter.com, along with the Huffington Post UK. Tests showed the records were indeed changed, but nameservers continued to redirect to the correct IPs, and the change was most likely a result of the breach in a DNS records holding site. Multiple tests by The Verge revealed no break in the HTTPS connection to twitter.com, suggesting the IP connection was never disturbed. It therefore looks like the SEA is going after the name servers for Twitter, but hasn't directly hacked Twitter itself.
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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4665562/syrian-electronic-army-also-targets-twitter-with-latest-hack
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