An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. Employers are increasingly asking applicants for jobs to submit their user credentials or asking to watch while applicants peruse their own social media account. Attackers got their hands on a valid set of Twitter credentials and used them to compromise the DNS records. Read the full article in “Threatpost Today”” at 10:20am.”
Source: https://threatpost.com/twitter-reveals-more-dns-attack-122109/73283/