2011-09-04

Hackety hack hack

Well, the register...


But a hell of a lot of other sites, even the telegraph.

Oh dear...
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4 comments:

  1. John BurtonSunday 4 September 2011 at 22:08:00 BST

    Appears to be the DNS that's changed rather than the site as suck

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  2. admcdSunday 4 September 2011 at 22:10:00 BST

    Their DNS servers appear to have been changed. Looks like their domain registrar got hacked.

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  3. RevKMonday 5 September 2011 at 08:04:00 BST

    And you gotta love that the hackers have a copyright date on their hack page!!!

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  4. AlexMonday 5 September 2011 at 10:31:00 BST

    It's also a scary one as if you hack a registrar then presumably as well as changing the DNS servers you could also change / remove the DNSSEC key, defeating any security advantages that brings...

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