Anyone Else Seeing Twitter "hacked by Iranian Cyber Army"?

Twitter ^ | 12/17/2009 | n/a

[thecabal]

I'm getting a message from two different PCs that the Twitter homepage has been hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army". I also cannot access it with other clients that use the API (they throw certificate errors).

[thecabal]

I don't want to send people there if there's a nasty virus waiting for you, but curious if anyone else noticed this tonight.

[Moe Tzadik]

Epic fail from here. Grab a screen cap if you can. :-)

[Stoat]

It’s not loading on my puter at the moment, after trying with Firefox and Opera....it appears to be down.
Twitter has been extremely effective in providing an information conduit among the Iranian Pro-Democracy protesters, so I have no doubt that the Iranian gov’t is putting a lot of effort into hacking it.

[vwatto]

Looks like it’s down. I can’t even connect to it.

[Moe Tzadik]

Twitter has been extremely effective in providing an information conduit among the Iranian Pro-Democracy protesters, so I have no doubt that the Iranian gov’t is putting a lot of effort into hacking it.

Prelude to....?

[Velveeta]

[Cindy]

Thanks, I was just going to check my accounts.

Thanks Vel.

[abigkahuna]

No Luck with Safari either... hmmmm....

[Velveeta]

You’re welcome.

[jen0517]

I logged in earlier. About an hour ago (2330 CST). But now I’m not able to get on...what’s up?

[Cindy]

Yep, I can’t get in.

[thecabal]

Thanks for the screen cap, Vel. I see that everyone else is getting it also. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t my local machine or DNS hijacked. Look like someone got root on Twitter. Makes me wonder if something is up in Iran.

[Moe Tzadik]

My last Twitter/Breaking News RSS delivery was Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:17:44 +0000

[Velveeta]

I was on about 8pm CST for a few minutes and everything was fine then.

Link FYI
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Mowjcamp&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10

[thecabal]

So that was about...1.5 hours ago?

[Moe Tzadik]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

[Moe Tzadik]

Yes.

[Cindy]

Thanks Vel and thanks for the link.

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Off Topic.

Previously...

Quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408537/posts

Khamenei: Enemies Of The Regime Will Disappear Like Foam On The Water
(”Source: Irib.ir, Iran, December 14, 2009; Leader.ir, Iran, December 13, 2009”) via THE MEMRI BLOG ^ | Posted December 15, 2009 | n/a
Posted on December 16, 2009 12:33:28 AM PST by Cindy

Note: The following blog entry is a quote:

Quote

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/22853.htm

Blog Details

Khamenei: Enemies Of The Regime Will Disappear Like Foam On The Water

Referring to an incident in which a Student Day (December 7) demonstrators tore up a picture of founder of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that the enemies of the regime are “like foam on the water” and would disappear in the same way.

Tehran prosecutor-general Jafari Dolatabadi announced that the regime had arrested students who tore up banners of Khomeini and Khamenei.

Source: Irib.ir, Iran, December 14, 2009; Leader.ir, Iran, December 13, 2009

Posted at: 2009-12-15

[Moe Tzadik]

LOL

“Could Iran Shut down Twitter?”

http://futureoftheinternet.org/could-iran-shut-down-twitter