NYTimes seems to be down and Twitter is be loading all wrong because twimg.com is down. Whoa! This is some serious stuff.
Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility
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#12The twitter frontpage is completly broken for me. Static assets like css and javascript are served by twimg.com, which are now missing. If SEA has access to a server which can take the load of twimg.com, they can inject their Javascript and possible exploits to ALL twitter users...
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#13Woah! Has Verisign been hacked?
$ whois twitter.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.
TWITTER.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM
TWITTER.COM
And then:
$ whois verisign.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information.
VERISIGN.COM.MIGHT.SUCK.FYRAE.COM
VERISIGN.COM
I get really crazy responses like this for almost every major site I try (cnn.com, yahoo.com, google.com).
Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility
#14Why hasn't the SEA changed the nameservers?
Nameservers of nytimes.com and twimg.com are changed:
Name Server.......... ns27.boxsecured.com
Name Server.......... ns28.boxsecured.com
Re: Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility
#15US is about to bomb Syrian military assets so this is Iran's response. The SEA is clearly Iranian. Email them something in Farsi or PM one of their propaganda accounts on youtube they usually answer.
last time I checked ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com was hosted out of Russia and includes " qatar-leaks.com" which seems to have disappeared
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#16Last update on status.twitter.com was August 6th.
Get your shit together guys, this is serious business.
Edit: looks like there's an update now: http://status.twitter.com/post/59528478030/twitter-service-i...
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#17Woah! Has Verisign been hacked? $ whois twitter.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. TWITTER.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM TWITTER.COM And then: $ whois verisign.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be regi…
I never use CA's so didn't notice this, I only use the twitter app which Moxie Marlinspike and Charlie Miller hardened with pinned certs to avoid all authorities
Also this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4415269/suspicious-result...
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#18As someone asked in the comments of the article asked (no response yet), I'm curious myself... > " twimg.com is a domain used by Twitter which is an widget company that is part of a network of sites, cookies, and other technologies used to track you, what you do and what you click on, as you go from site to site, surfing the Web. Does that not mean that SEA will be intercepting this data? "
The tweet button/widget is served by http://platform.twitter.com so this shouldn't be a problem as long as the twitter.com nameservers are unchanged.
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#19Woah! Has Verisign been hacked? $ whois twitter.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. TWITTER.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM TWITTER.COM And then: $ whois verisign.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be regi…
no.
VERISIGN.COM.MIGHT.SUCK.FYRAE.COM is a subdomain of FYRAE.com
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#20How hard is this to do... I ask because I find it harder to believe that they are responsible for this. Just like I don't trust the YouTube videos either. I would find it more likely that three letter agencies are involved as PR.
I don't buy it either. Seems fishy.
Fishy enough that the SEA's own Twitter account is gloating about it?