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, which allowed the hackers to redirect people looking for Twitter.com to their own servers.

Twitter is fast becoming an integral part of people’s daily life all around the world. Millions and millions of people use it with millions more joining all the time.

Now that Twitter has moved into shiny new offices in San Francisco, maybe they should get their act together on the security side. Allowing our sworn enemies to brazenly hack their site is in a word — unacceptable.

As for the “Iranian Cyber Army” — they’ve shown they can post cute messages on websites. We’ve shown we can drop really big bombs.

(hat tip Lifehacker)

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.

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.