Twitter Hackers Take Down Baidu

snydeq writes "The group that took down Twitter last month has apparently claimed another victim: China's largest search engine Baidu.com. Offline late Monday, Baidu.com at one point displayed an image saying 'This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army,' according to a report in the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party and other Web sites. The Iranian Cyber Army first gained notoriety with its Dec. 18 Twitter attack. Baidu's domain name records were the focus of the hack. On Monday, the company was using domain name servers belonging to HostGator, a Florida ISP, instead of the Baidu.com nameservers the company normally uses."

Re:Hackers are no longer "cool"

[Anonymous Coward]

You grew up.

Re:Hackers are no longer "cool"

[antifoidulus]

No, you got older and your view of the world has changed significantly. Teenagers, especially boys, just love to see the world burn. As we get older and have more invested in said world, the fires tend to lose their luster.

Re:Hackers are no longer "cool"

[paeanblack]

When I was in high school, I'd read something like this and the first thing that would pop into my head would be: "cool!" Now the first thing that comes up is: "what a bunch of assholes." Has hacking* finally lost its mystique?

No, you just grew up. Welcome to having adult sensibilities.

Re:Hackers are no longer "cool"

[LWATCDR]

Hacking is cool. Trashing peoples stuff not so cool.
Hacking used to mean making systems do things they where never meant to do. Now it means being a hoodlum.

Re:Hackers are no longer "cool"

[Anonymous Coward]

When you have seen the same hack for the 1 billionth time it gets old...

This sort of thing is no longer a 'hack' but just ordinary vandalism. Much as you would marvel at the spray paint on the underside of a bridge and think 'how did they do that' but then think 'what a jerk'...

Would have bee "cool"

[future assassin]

if they defaced it and erased all foot prints they left along with not mentioning their hacker group name. Nothing like an anonymous hack to freak people out.

Re:"took down Twitter"? Come on!

[Anonymous Coward]

How about, 'The attack rendered Twitter and it's API inaccessible via standard means for several hours.'