Several months ago a group in Iran which named themselves as “Iranian Cyber Army” shut down twitter for several hours and put an image on the twitter website which shows the flag of Iran and a message which represented that Iranian government has this power to hack very huge social networks such as twitter and USA has no power in comparison to Iran. Doing this activity on a website like twitter caused lots of problems both for the home and business users which were using this platform to communicate with their friends, families and partners and it also make a fear in the user that their personal information and message is not on a secure place on the web.so what will be the result? The result will be a sharp decrease in the number of users who uses this website and it’ not the thing that the creator of such the website looking for. Although the security team of twitter solved the problem several hours later but the effect will last for several months.
The new threat which might encounter the users in the new future is about FACEBOOK , another huge virtual place for the users from different parts of the world.they can not be sure any more that their personal info will keep secure or not?
source:
http://fvdb.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/twitter-hacked-by-iran-cyber-army/
As you mentioned in the last part of your post, It is probable that even facebook would be attack in the near future, why should our website securities be this much vulnerable that an armature team in a country can hack it and steal the users' private info?
ReplyDeleteThe use of Web technology amid the Iran protests was closely watched in Washington, where a State Department official asked Twitter to postpone a planned maintenance shutdown by a day to allow Iranians to speak out and organize.
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