twitter hacking

Buzz Out Loud 1265: Perfect Citizen (podcast)

On today's show, the NSA announces a new security program that's terrifyingly called "Perfect Citizen" but (at least on the surface) appears to be little more than a series of Star Trek red alert alarms. We're rightfully suspicious. Also, Flash is getting 3D, Pirate Bay is under attack, and the iPhone 4 antenna problem is a hardware issue. We knew that.

Buzz Out Loud 1192: The ethical standards of GoDaddy (podcast)

We accidentally besmirch the reputation of Danica Patrick, come up with some reasons why Bing might actually work (except for how it apparently means "disease" in Chinese), and take to task the millions of people who are still deliberately clicking on spam.

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Twitter hijacked by 'Iranian Cyber Army'

Updated at 11:15 p.m. PST to include comment from witness and reflect Twitter.com accessible again. Updated at 11:50 p.m. PST with status update from Twitter.

Twitter.com was down Thursday evening, and it appears that the microblogging site may have been hacked or the victim of a DNS hijacking.

The site, which was inaccessible for about an hour starting around 10 p.m. PST, was defaced with the following image before it was taken offline:

The message at the bottom of the image appears to be written in Perso-Arabic script and when translated to English … Read more