Twitter Hack a Sign of War of the Future [ by Michael T] [Culture Clash]
December 18, 2009Twitter was taken down overnight by the Iranian Cyber Army - whoever that is. Welcome to war of the future.
It’s long been known that Russian, Chinese and other hackers have been mucking about in our computer networks. Little has been done to stop them (see 60 Minutes’ report on the vulnerability of our electric grid) and now private companies have to worry about being taken out. Overnight, Twitter.com was taken down for about an hour by an attack from a group that redirected the site to something called “Iranian Cyber Army.” No one knows who that is but it’s hardly a surprise that Twitter would be a target of Iranian subterfuge. After all, they facilitated communications during recent protests - to the point that the US government asked they postpone scheduled maintenance during the protests.
We are going to see more of these as hackers continue to stay miles ahead of US security efforts. And you thought wars of the future would play out on distant battlefields? Not anymore.
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