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A group calling themselves the “Iranian Cyber Army” hijacked and defaced Twitter last night. Here’s the message they posted on the front page: 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. Twitter says the problem was due to compromised DNS records,...

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  A malicious worm attacked Twitter’s network over the weekend with four separate attacks. The worm was designed to automatically reproduce itself once it’s clicked on....

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  Websites and blogs will always be targets for hackers and mischief makers. WordPress is generally pretty secure and the latest version is the most secure yet. However, those with less than honorable intentions will never stop trying to defeat this security, so you must be prepared.   Lorelle of Lorelle On WordPress fame has written an excellent post about what you should do to firewall and hack proof your WordPress blog....

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