A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army has apparently taken Twitter offline. At the moment it's not clear what happened, but Twitter says it's a DNS attack. From what's been reported so far, Twitter's DNS provider (
http://dyn.com) may have been compromised, but seems only to affect twitter for now. It sounds like the perpetrators pointed the name
twitter.com to a non-existent IP address. As of now, twitter is still inaccessible (I'm in France).
DNS is the service that associates the name of a computer on the Internet to an IP address so that we humans don't have to remember a long string of numbers to access a website, just its name.
For more information:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/185058/hackers_take_twitter_offline.html
http://status.twitter.com/
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