“Iranian hackers brought down micro-blogging website Twitter for around two hours this morning. The attack took place at around 6am and left the site's estimated 30million users unable to send messages or post 'tweets'. The main Twitter homepage had been replaced with a black and red screen featuring an image of a green flag. The page carried the message: 'This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army. The USA thinks they control and manage internet access, but they don't. We control and manage the internet with our power, so do not try to the incite Iranian people.' The site reappeared around two hours later, with staff telling users: 'We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.' It is believed that Twitter's DNS records were hijacked in the attack meaning that users who were trying to visit the site were actually redirected to the new page……”

In its panic, Alarabiya TV website claimed that the “Iranian Army” has hacked Twitter. They stand corrected. I recall Alarabiya site was also hijacked by someone in recent years. I don’t think the Iranian army has the capability of the Iranian hackers in such matters.
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