There have been a series of security compromises on the internet this year, and it has become apparent that no one is safe. Twitter with its <sarcasm>stellar</sarcasm> record of security has been hit again last Friday by what seems like the work of a group calling themselves “The Iranian Cyber Army“.

Twitter has been affected by a DNS redirection attack in which their homepage got defaced. The hackers replaced the homepage with the following image and text:

Twitter Hacked by Iranians

The rest of the text:

"Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA? WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;)

Take Care."