Hackers takeover Twitter.com for a short time

Followers of any number of celebrities, pundits, sports stars and even the guy or girl next door who headed over to the Twitter website were redirected to a web page for a group calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army," as hackers hijacked the popular microblogging community's website recently. The attackers apparently were able to redirect Twitter users by stealing the credentials needed to administer the domain name system (DNS) records for Twitter.com, several reports indicated. Twitter acknowledged the incident via a blog posting on its website. "As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed," the post said. Twitter's DNS service is provided by Manchester, New Hampshire-based Dyn. Tom Daly, chief technology officer at Dyn, told the Washington Post that the incident was not the result of a security failure on its services. Daly said it appears someone changed Twitter's DNS records to point visitors to a different Internet address using the proper account credentials assigned to Twitter. It remains still unknown who was responsible or how the user name and password needed to change Twitter's DNS records were intercepted.