Twitter Gets Hacked Possible Falseflag to Promote Obama's Cyber Warfare Spending
The Twitter service's server login credentials were somehow stolen and used to make DNS changes that redirected people trying to get to twitter.com to a protest site last Friday, according to site admins.
Already Obama administration people are talking about how this is proof they need to steal billions more from our empty treasury and that it somehow justifies the moronic and criminal cyber warfare program. The fact is all it is proof of is that Twitter needs to be more careful about it's log-on passwords and overall security, which won't cost them a single penny if they have good, well trained computer staff.
The group has never spoken a word and the name "Iranian Cyber Army" sounds suspiciously similar to Obama's cyber warfare program which is a new way for the defense industrial complex to steal more money from our empty treasury, which was introduced by the Obama administration. The program is completely without any merit as the private sector handles computer security extremely well. In fact the US government has failed to even to provide minimal levels of sever maintenance in years gone by. Simply hiring properly skilled network technicians can make the entire US government computer networks very secure and at a very minimal cost relative to this "cyber warfare" program which also clearly threatens civil and Constitutional liberties.
Just as top economists all condemned the TARP program of Bush/Obama and Obama's Federal reserve massive 17.5 trillion dollar theft, legitimate computer engineers and privacy experts are all raising an alarm over the Obama cyber warfare effort. It is completely fraudulent to it's core.
Surfers visiting the Twitter micro-blogging service's website for about an hour early on Friday morning were instead redirected to a page on another site, boasting that Twitter had been "owned" by a group that calls itself the Iranian Cyber Army. In this case, by "owned" they seemed to be referring to the successful hacking of the twitter website.
Twitter acknowledged its DNS records "were temporarily compromised" in a status page update, without going into the details of what actually happened.
Last night, DNS settings for the Twitter web site were hijacked. From 9:46pm to 11pm PST, approximately 80 per cent of Traffic to Twitter.com was redirected to other web sites. We tweeted, blogged, and updated our status page last night. "Tweeted" refers to Twitter's brand of microblogging, a system where a relatively small number of characters are allowed per blog or message entry, hence "micro". In Twitters case their messages (called tweets) are limited to 140 characters each.
During the attack, we were in direct contact with our DNS provider, Dynect. We worked closely to reset our DNS as quickly as possible. The motive for this attack appears to have been focused on defacing our site, not aimed at users—we don't believe any accounts were compromised.
However, security experts involved in maintaining the Twitter web servers said Twitter's own server login and password were used in the attack. Tom Daly, chief technology officer at Dyn purportedly stated that attackers used a "set of valid Twitter credentials" to change DNS setting and redirect surfers.
DNS refers to Domain Name Server, which is a server, commonly used throughout the Internet to provide a directory listing of all the numerical IP addresses and their associated URLs such as twitter.com which has a numberical IP address of 128.121.146.228, once the numerical IP address is found the content associated with that DNS entry, on a web server hard drive are then presented to the user who, in this case, typed Twitter.com. But if one changed the DNS servers entries by gaining critical log on information, they could force the IP address of the DNS server or the web server itself to be altered thus causing a different web page to come up when one types Twitter.com in the browser.
The previously unknown group who carried out the attack wrote a message criticising US "interference" in recent Iranian elections. Whether this is an actual attack by Iranian government entities or pro government entities or a false flag attack, one in which the attack is made to look like the attacker is an entity it is not, is unclear.
Twitter became a notable outlet for dissent by Iranian protesters during the disputed elections earlier this year, a factor that may have led to its targeting by the presumably pro government Iranian hackers (or government operatives) or all just a very good cover for a falseflag operation to boost support for Obama's cyber warfare program.
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Even if this were an attack like the creeps at Christian Science Monitor are saying, were an attack by the Iranian government why would that justify spending billions. We can arm our nation to the teeth there is ZERO chance of any effective cyber warfare with proper network and individual computer security. ZERO.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CYBER WARFARE. It is a fabrication of the fake treasonous defense industrial complex criminals at the CSIS. It would cost Twitter and organizations practically nothing to secure their computer systems completely. The US government was warned about server failures within the government that could have been rebuilt by a skilled server engineer within a few hours costing the treasury less than 2,000 bucks for his/her time; instead they ignored the warnings and it caused a severe breakdown and loss of security. They could easily have detected the flawed server just like outside people detected over the Internet, taken it offline and rebuilt it. The skill level in the US government is really poor. This doesn't justify turning over computer security to the military. That is something Hitler would do.
Oh and on the subject of the Christian Science Monitor... how the hell did they get hijacked?? They used to be so good but now it's like they are being run by the military industrial complex and neocons with a little fake seasoning up of the article. I don't even think most of them are Christian. One of them is in the regular company of Neocons.
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Obama's only been in a year but he has made a mess of things. Cyber warfare is nuts. The Internet needs to be hands off period.
Obama could still turn around. He's been rotten as dirt so far but people are known to change. I would say worse but this is a PG community site.
So far obama has acted as if he is George W Bush on steroids. He's worse. He's destroying our country and doing whatever the banksters and defense industrial complex whores tell him to. We didn't pound the pavement to elect him for this!
What a monster.