Recently twitter was hacked and its security was compromised by Iranian hackers.The reason for it is twitter’s own email security.How this was executed was hackers gained access to an email account and changed the password then redirected Twitter.com traffic to some place else.When twitter was fired up there was a message from Iranian Cyber army.Early reports confirmed that Twitter itself had not been compromised rather the DNS records (which points web users to the right place when hitting Twitter.com) had been changed to point to another location.

Twitter’s DNS provider, Dyn Inc. has absolved itself of blame by claiming that the DNS records were changed by an authorized user.In other words, the attacker had the password to Twitter’s Dyn Inc account, logged in and changed the settings. That points to one likely cause: a Twitter administrator had their email security compromised, and a password reset request was made.

So if such cases of security imbalance takes place there might be chances of same instance happening in web based apps like Google apps.So choose a strong password and the security questions wisely.

Via Mashable

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