Twitter hacked by Iranians from News

Recently, the company hosting DNS entires for Twitter was hacked.  DNS, wihch stands for Domain Name System, is what tells your computer where to find a URL, such as twitter.com.  Through this hack, the assailants were able to redirect the twitter.com URL to their own site, indicating that they had hacked the site.

Watch the video courtesy of tutorialstips.com, or read a detailed report from Tech Crunch below.

I don’t know about you, but I’m worried the Iranian Army has kept us from learning that Ashton Kutcher was eating meatballs and that Bill Gates was buying Christmas gifts online.

Full Report: Twitter Hacked, Defaced By “Iranian Cyber Army”

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