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Comcast Briefly Loses Control of Its Domain Name

Posted by kdawson on from the old-skool-pwned dept.

Fallen Andy notes that Comcast, one of the largest US ISPs, lost control of its domain name to what appeared to be juvenile social engineers of the old school — i.e. not in it for the money. The intruders got into Comcast's registrar account at Network Solutions and repointed the domain's DNS records. A blog entry at SANS points out how trivially easy this can be. Reader ElvenKnight points out an insightful interview up at Wired with the two young guys who perpetrated the hack.

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  1. Expiring domains by Ojuicer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Regarding the bit at the end about losing your domain name. Recently I had a domain name expire, and it entered a rather generous grace period followed by an extended "grace" period where I could exclusively pay money (few hundred £) to recover it just in time. According to my limited experience of 1, I'd say you'd really have to take your eye off the ball to miss this one.

  2. Network Solutions ha ha by dalpeh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did NS make a statement. I just dropped them a while back for several reasons. Price vs service the most important. NS front runs domains also, they need to make some big changes.

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  3. Just change the business model by arthurpaliden · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The gas company sells me gas by the cubic meter. The water company sells me water by the cubic meter. So why not have the ISP's sell me throughput (up and down) by the bit. The more I use the more I pay for. (Yes I know there will be other delivery/infastructure charges same as for water and gas)

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  4. Re:Ubuwalker's 6 pronged guide to terrorism by Amouth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I like and agree with your list.. you put some time into it.. but i have a question about your last sentence

    "If Al Queda launched a cyber attack to knock out a hospitals computer infrastructure, that would be terrorism."

    now change the Al Queda to MediaSentry - the people who DOS'ed R3 this past weekend.. inwich the R3 people said "luckly it was us and not a hospital"

    what if it that company did target a hospital.. would that be considered terrorism..

    (just asking for your personal view)

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