Gadgetwise: How to Know if You've Been Hacked

The Justice Department has obtained two months of secret phone records for Associated Press journalists, in what the news company said was likely due to a May 7, 2012, story on a thwarted terror plot.

Popular microblogging site Twitter was briefly shut down overnight, its home page replaced with an image claiming the site had been hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army."The website's official blog acknowledged the disruption but gave no details as to how the site had been disrupted and who was responsible."As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed," the site's co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the blog."We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully," he added.

Popular microblogging site Twitter was briefly shut down overnight, its home page replaced with an image claiming the site had been hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army."The website's official blog acknowledged the disruption but gave no details as to how the site had been disrupted and who was responsible."As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed," the site's co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the blog."We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully," he added.

Popular microblogging site Twitter was briefly shut down overnight, its home page replaced with an image claiming the site had been hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army."The website's official blog acknowledged the disruption but gave no details as to how the site had been disrupted and who was responsible."As we tweeted a bit ago, Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised tonight but have now been fixed," the site's co-founder Biz Stone wrote on the blog."We will update with more information and details once we've investigated more fully," he added.

As part of a sweeping overhaul of the state's gun laws, New York legislators amended state public records laws to protect gun owners from being publicly identified.

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday defended the National Security Agency’s need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information “a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats.” While defending the practice, a senior administration official did not confirm a newspaper report that the NSA has been collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order.

(Great Beyond)